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My laptop PC blew up need to rescue stuff on the hardrive

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  • 11-02-2011 1:10pm
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    krd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    My laptop blew up. Think it was the either processor burning out or it could have been the mother board.

    It may or may not be fixable - but I maybe able to recover stuff from the hard drive.

    It was using Ableton on it. Anyone know which folders are essential to rescue the environment - how do I know I'm grabbing all the essential files for a project etc (samples and stuff where are they?). Where is all the essential stuff.


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    Anima
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    If its just power surge type damage, the hard drive is most likely fine. So you should be able to recover everything.

    Dunno about ableton though.


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    krd
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    I think it was a power surge. The motherboard is fried. I can install Ableton on a new machine - but I'm really pissed about having to rebuild the environment. In future I must make a back up of the whole thing. Still it'll give me a chance to rebuild everything. and start from scratch again, with better organisation.


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    krd
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    I'm getting a very similar machine on Tuesday.

    I'm thinking of keeping the old hard drive - which is more or less the same as the new one

    But they're not precisely the same machine. So I don't know how much ****e I'd have to go through to get it working properly.

    I'm in two minds.


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    krd
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    Byron Lemon Pocketful wrote: »
    A lot less than starting fresh!

    Thanks.

    I think that's the way I'll go.

    I've trying to calculate how much time and pain I'd have to go through.

    One thing I have noticed. Pretty decent second hand laptops are begining to appear for dirt cheap. If I could afford it (which at the moment I can't) it would be great to have a few, all setup differently. Or have machines I could completely wipe down and rebuild. Or dedicate each one to a specific genre.

    I think decent enough laptops may start turning up for €100 to even €50.


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    rayzercork
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    try get a loan of a hdd dock, pull out your hard drive and plug it in. you should be able to get everything back then


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    krd
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    rayzercork wrote: »
    try get a loan of a hdd dock, pull out your hard drive and plug it in. you should be able to get everything back then

    That's what I did. The new machine wouldn't take the old harddrive.

    Now I have to go through the painful looking process of putting my ableton environment back to close as I had it. 18 gig in total of different files - most of which is useless junk - but a few gig of crucial stuff.


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    krd
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    Byron Lemon Pocketful wrote: »
    Did you select what device to boot from in the bios?

    The guy was doing that bit not me - but it half booted into windows and couldn't recognise devices on the boards.


    I'm happy enough with the new machine. It's a little better in some ways.

    BUT

    I copied 18gb from the old disk and am missing some of my old tracks - where the f could they have got to. The guy is keeping the disc for a few days - it's my fault, the way I was managing my projects. But I'm not sure where the other files went.


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