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Broken Laptop, Chereen’s laptop is broken, so hoping to fix it. The problem is worse as the fact the CD-Rom drive doesnt work and that the fact also is that its reporting a corrupt windows error which makes it a bigger problem as i cant use a Windows disc to repair it.

I tried using a External CD-ROM drive to see if i could use the laptop Bios to boot off the USB External CD-ROM drive which wouldn’t work as the Bios in the laptop is very basic no advance boot options which is disappointing.

So investigated on how to remove the hard drive which was very simple to do, as the hard drive has its own panel on the back of the laptop which allows easy drive removal.

So I went into the local computer repair shop on Parkgate Road in Chester, to make a few enquires as Chereen’s laptop is broken.I enquired on the price of data extraction, god they are pricey, to transfer 4 Gigabytes of data off the drive it will cost £25.00, which is extremely expensive.

For a new CD-ROM drive it will cost £50 – £60 to replace which not too bad, but the data transfer price is through the roof!

So im now thinking of investing in a USB2 2.5 hard dive caddy which shouldn’t cost too much, which means i could then use that to plug the drive into and copy all the data off.  Hopefully it will not cost too much.