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Hewlett Packard-Compaq

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by ksomesla

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I tripped over the power cord of my Compaq laptop, when I took it back to Circuit City they told me that I messed pulled something inside of the mother board that would not let the laptop charge and that it would cost over $400 to repair because my warranty had just expired. I went out and purchased a new VAIO because I figured it was not worth repairing. I still have the Compaq that will not turn on, but really need things that are on the hard drive, is there any way that I can get the info off of the hard drive of the Compaq that will not turn on, onto the hard drive of the VAIO? Thanks in advance.

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by jbafile

I used to be a technician at Firedog, Circuit City's brand of PC Services...

They are not allowed to touch a laptop's power supply to re-solder anything...so what they do is if a laptop comes in with that problem, they give you a crazy price quote and talk you into purchasing a new computer.

Take your computer to a real PC repair shop and they will be able to fix that computer for relatively cheap, nine times out of ten it just needs to be re-soldered onto the board

As for the data on the hard drive...there are a few ways of going about that, the easiest for the not so computer savy would be to purchase an external drive enclosure that would plug into your VAIO via USB and just transfer that data over that way...

I bet your Compaq computer could be fixed relatively cheap though, most Firedog technicians are a joke.

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