Laptop - Can we fix it?
Flatmate's laptop went on the fritz the other night.
Something about having the printer plugged in, turning it off and pulling the plug, then it not starting up next time round.
[Edit: - Now with more details of just how borked it is!
It starts booting up from the BIOS normally, says there's been a serious error, offers you Safe Mode / no Safe Mode options etc, whichever you select it displays the windows splash/loading screen then bluescreens too quickly to read any of the text on it.
He has a Windows install cd (XP Home? Maybe?), but it doesn't seem to recognise that there is a Windows install on there, or want to do a repair install.
It has the restore option thing, eg just taking you to a C:/> and I'm while I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to do from there, I'd rather run TestDisk than 'FixMBR', and - the DIR command doesn't work. No file listing. Can't remember the error I got. Bugger, bugger, bugger...
/Edit]
Yeah, so - I've spent all of 10 minutes with it unfortunately, but flatmate would really just like to take it somewhere and fix it, *now*!
So, any recommendations of stores, fixit-people etc?
If he hasn't spirited it off before this evening, I'll sit down with it, start with TestDisk and well, move on from there...
Something about having the printer plugged in, turning it off and pulling the plug, then it not starting up next time round.
[Edit: - Now with more details of just how borked it is!
It starts booting up from the BIOS normally, says there's been a serious error, offers you Safe Mode / no Safe Mode options etc, whichever you select it displays the windows splash/loading screen then bluescreens too quickly to read any of the text on it.
He has a Windows install cd (XP Home? Maybe?), but it doesn't seem to recognise that there is a Windows install on there, or want to do a repair install.
It has the restore option thing, eg just taking you to a C:/> and I'm while I'm not entirely sure what you're supposed to do from there, I'd rather run TestDisk than 'FixMBR', and - the DIR command doesn't work. No file listing. Can't remember the error I got. Bugger, bugger, bugger...
/Edit]
Yeah, so - I've spent all of 10 minutes with it unfortunately, but flatmate would really just like to take it somewhere and fix it, *now*!
So, any recommendations of stores, fixit-people etc?
If he hasn't spirited it off before this evening, I'll sit down with it, start with TestDisk and well, move on from there...