Computer crash

01-19-07, 02:37 AM

Just as the title says my computer decided to die this morning. I woke this morning went to turn on my laptop to view the new post from aximsite as I do every morning and to my dismay no hard drive found. After further research I determined the hard drive to be bad. Honestly the fact the computer died didn't make me mad. The fact I lost all my photos from this christmas made me mad ( I was going to transfer them to a spare disk today ) Always happens that way doesn't it? Well after I got over my mad I had a choice to make fix my current laptop or buy new. Many of you will say fix it....especially after you know the specs:
Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 1
Pentium 4 3 Ghz 800FSB
256 ATI Radeon
Bluetooth/Wireless builtin
80 gig Hard Drive (Currently broken as well)
1 gig ram
Plus much more
Bought 2 years ago for $3000

After thinking long and hard and researching the cost to buy a new HD, DVD burner, and battery (total cost for all parts: $600; I would do install myself) I decided screw and bout new computer.
New computer:
Dell Dimension E250
Intel core 2 Duo Processor E6400 2.13 Ghz 1066 FSB
2 gig ram
19 in digital flat panel monitor
256 ATI Radeon
320 Gig Hard drive (7200 rpm)
XP media center 2005 w/ upgarade to Windows Vista on Jan 31
48x CD/DVD RW
4 year protection plan (won't make same mistake I did with laptop: no protection plan)
total cost: $1,877.20

Moral of the story: Don't get screwed like I did: buy the protection plan from Dell or don't buy Dell. They suck about customer support if you don't have a protection plan. Many people would laugh but E-machines are gaining a lot of popularity. Their customer service out does dell with or without a protection plan. I say this b/c many of my friends have bought them and told me how they have been treated. Well I am done rambling on. I just wanted to write a quick note to say thank god i had my Axim today since my computer crashed.

01-19-07, 03:35 AM

What a pain. It's easy to forget that hard drives DO crash.
You have prompted me to back up my photos. I am a bit overdue and I have a lot from Christmas I don't want to lose.

SadiaV · 01-19-07, 06:13 AM

I am really sorry about the loss. You wouldn't believe, but I experienced something like that just several hours before... Windows became dead (BSOD, also in safe mode). After format most of photos, music, movies, documents, game saves lost :( well, things happen...

01-19-07, 09:51 AM

I'm not sure where you shop for parts but $600 is on the high side.To get your laptop running again all you need is a hard drive and that can be had for less than $100 if you shop around.Check Ebay and Computergeeks.com for cheaper prices.Congrats on the new computer also.

kcallahan · 01-19-07, 10:08 AM

Does the HD still spin? Depending on what's wrong with your hard drive, you might be able to have a tech pull the data off for you. Unless the drive won't spin up or the disk is physically scratched, you S/B able to pull the data off. The FAT file is probably corrupted.