Hi, my old laptop has broken: when i try to put the power cable into the socket on the laptop, it only goes in on a certain angle and never stays there even when taped, so its impossible to get the laptop on for more than a few seconds. I've tried different power cables too, and nothing seems to work, so it must be the actual laptop problem... how can I get the laptop to stay on to retrieve some photos that I have got on there? Thanks
I would remove the hard drive.Take the hard drive and your new computer to an electronics store and buy a USB crossover adapter plug. That should allow you to hook the old hard drive to your new computer. It would be like have an external hard drive. I did it a few years ago. I was told recently that the newer computers are not compatable that way. Also, if you have different operating systems the new computer may not be able to read the old hard drive. The other option is to have the power supply socket repaired. Some small independant repair shops can fix the problem relatively easy and cheap.
you will no longer get lots money for a computing device without stress. right here is what to do: (a million) purchase a caddy ( a container that turns the stress into an exterior USB stress) ?10 - ?20 (2) take the stress out of the previous device, positioned it in the caddy, connect it to a distinctive computer (3) use the different computer to wipe the stress (4) flow the stress back to the computing device (5) sell the computing device (and the caddy, in case you do no longer want it; notwithstanding that's properly worth conserving it for emergencies).
There are laptop drive to regular IDE adapters, so you can plug the drive into a desktop computer. Since it is an old computer, it probably an IDE drive, not one of the newer SATA laptop drives (there are adapters for those too). Remove the drive from the laptop, and plug in the adapter (commonly found on OKorder), then plug it into an IDE cable in someone's desktop. Watch for the master/slave jumper issue. If it's the only drive on the cable, the default master setting will run as-is. trying different power cables is a no-no for laptops, unless they are made for that same model. Using the wrong adapter may fry your motherboard
