Dead Laptop

[Yorick]

Bollox. Me trusty old Toshiba lappy died overnight. Left it to reboot after Windows updates and this morning, nada

Charger shows a light, but no light or power on the lappy

Gonna nip round to a pal's later to try his charger.

IIRC they have an internal power supply/whatever but can't remember what it's called. Is that a likely problem?

If it's FUBAR can I get data off? Some important stuff

TIA.

[KungFooBob]

How old is it?

If it's got a removable battery, take it out and try powering it up with the PSU attached.

Try leaving it with the battery removed for a few hours.

If it's got a 2.5inch drive with a SATA connector you can slot it into a cheap USB caddy to get the data off (depending on if it's encrypted).

If it wasn't for the whole covid thing, I would have come and set it on fire for only £500 plus expenses.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

It's probably the charging port that's died, I think we had a Toshiba do this - a replacement port isn't expensive, but it's an utter barstard to get to.

[Yorick]

Well, tried to get the back off as KFC suggested, but it wasn't playing.
So Googled Toshiba battery and found a reset option. Press power button 20 seconds then plug in the mains cable.
Well, power magically happened. It's now installing the updates.

I'm whizzing down to buy a 1Tb drive to back up all the data before it dies again.
Thanks for the help

[KungFooBob]

Remember you can stick it all on the cloud too with something like Google Drive or M$ OneDrive.

[Yorick]

Remember you can stick it all on the cloud too with something like Google Drive or M$ OneDrive.

I'll do that as well. Backing up 800Gb right now

[Ditchfinder]

You'll not want to be paying Google or MS what it would cost to back up 800gb to the cloud

[KungFooBob]

I'm guessing 90% at least of that is music and or movies.

Don't put them on the cloud, only the really important stuff. You get 15gb on Google Drive gratis.

[Yorick]

You'll not want to be paying Google or MS what it would cost to back up 800gb to the cloud

Most of it is Penny's backing tracks for when she's singing.

[Yorick]

I'm guessing 90% at least of that is music and or movies.

Don't put them on the cloud, only the really important stuff. You get 15gb on Google Drive gratis.

Coolio