So they (TSA) dropped my laptop. It worked fine after when I tried it and for the last two weeks. It was off at the time of drop. Last night placing it on my nightstand it shuts off. Trying to turn it back on and it won't. I can hear the HDD trying to spin but it won't. So how do I go about recovering my data. There's also a burntish smell. This blows. TSA will pay for repair, does that also include data recovery?
They dropped mine too, but only a few feet. It worked fine afterwards.
Yeah same here just a few feet but I guess this toshiba isn't that rugged. Really nice computer it's a qosmio f50 but a little fragile it seems.
Data recovery is a simple as a $20 external drive bay enclosure
Yeah but what if the drive is borked?
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Most likely, the drive is OK. Something else blew. I would try to power the drive up from another computer. You can buy an adapter cable that will let you plug a laptop drive into a desktop motherboard. You'd have to find exactly what kind of drive you have, check your desktop, etc., but I've done that before. Or, you can find another laptop identical to yours and swap the drives out temporarily, then pull your data off over the network or to thumb drives, external drives, etc., and swap back.
Now, if the drive itself is toast, unless you have contacts at the NSA, you're pretty screwed.
yeah, my issue is also that toshiba wants to keep the bad drive, while I want it so that I can get my stuff off of it. I may have most of the stuff on an external so it might be a moot point.
Just spend $15-20 on a 2.5" HDD enclosure and see if you can get your stuff off it that way.
Edit: Uh, yeah, what Grtechguy said. I missed that post.
Yeah I've got one here I just haven't gotten a chance to try it out. I'm thinking it might not be the HDD though, sucks it's a holiday weekend and the toshiba repair center nearby is closed. Now I gotta wait till I get back to the left coast to get it looked at.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AWw7t5zj0
Take yo laptops out yo bags..
(NSFW language)
ignorant wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AWw7t5zj0 Take yo laptops out yo bags.. (NSFW language)
That's about how they acted really the lady operating the x-ray machine was miserable and rude.
She tried to yell at my wife. Well my wife don't take crap off of no one, well except me 
Yeah, it sucks that people who would otherwise be working at McDonald's get that sort of power over us when we have to fly.
skruffy wrote: Yeah, it sucks that people who would otherwise be working at McDonald's get that sort of power over us when we have to fly.
"To professionalize you must federalize."
skruffy wrote: Yeah, it sucks that people who would otherwise be working at McDonald's get that sort of power over us when we have to fly.
My experience with the TSA suggests that most of them would have difficulty getting hired on at McDonalds.
You obviously werent at Hartsfield. Here they would have stolen your laptop then when you challenged them on it they would have locked you up.
Ok so the drive wasn't borked, I got all my crap off of it. My question is do I send it to toshiba and have the do the warranty, and/or make the lovely TSA pay for it. I'm pretty sure the motherboard is toast.
you'll have a hard time getting the TSA to pay for it, unless there was some kind of report filed when they dropped it.
I made sure there was a report filed when it was dropped. I work for the government I know how E36 M3 works, forms, forms and more forms as long as the paperwork is right you are good.
skruffy wrote: Yeah, it sucks that people who would otherwise be working at McDonald's get that sort of power over us when we have to fly.
Security theater.
I avoid flying specifically because of the TSA. They should go away.
Xceler8x wrote: I avoid flying specifically because of the TSA. They should go away.
Maybe that is the TSA's tactic. Annoy the terrorists out of air travel.
DILYSI Dave wrote:Xceler8x wrote: I avoid flying specifically because of the TSA. They should go away.Maybe that is the TSA's tactic. Annoy the terrorists out of air travel.
That belongs in "Say What"
I wonder how much truly dangerous stuff, and how many bad people they catch. I mean are we talking they keep 10 guns off planes a day, or is it like they keep 5 grandma's liquid bingo blotters out of the skies due to the 3 oz rules, per week?
Well the dilemma continues, I took my puter to be repaired at a toshiba repair center (hour drive each way) cool, they order a new motherboard and all is well. Fast foward 2 days, bam perusing the board (only thing I ever do on the interweb), and it shuts down again. Hmmm ok so I call toshiba and there's a compatability issue with the 64 bit version of vista and my computer, seems I have the option when first powering up the computer of causing it to frag it's self. Sorta like LC and the GTR. So they are sending a box and I'm sending it to toshiba, where their techs will repair it once again. I'm going to give this computer one last shot with the 32 bit version of vista, of this thing (well that thing, using the wifeys laptop right now). I am filing a claim with the TSA, but should I ask toshiba to give me a replacement of equal specs?
nocones wrote: I wonder how much truly dangerous stuff, and how many bad people they catch. I mean are we talking they keep 10 guns off planes a day, or is it like they keep 5 grandma's liquid bingo blotters out of the skies due to the 3 oz rules, per week?
I've made it through security with a 5 inch folding knife several times, not intentionally either.
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