claim on house insurance?

[Bluefish]

Jesus, dil knocked her sisters lappy of the kitchen worktop last night and its broked, packard bell 3 years old cost 400 quid, comes up with boot drive not found or some thing now. House ins excess is 60 quid is it worth claiming for it and then seeing if it can be fixed,or just get it fixed, or just buy another?

[OneDay]

Speak to your insurers Blue. Most have a like-for-like replacement service (they have deals with all big manufacturers)

[Bluefish]

Yeah i will give them a ring tonight after work oneday, yougest is not impressed with her sis, understatement of the year that is lol.

[Deleted]

Nightmare .. all that lost information

[matty198111]

Can u not take hdd out and put in caddy
Atleast you can get the info back

That's if laptop cant be fixed

[BigG]

I take it was on when it was dropped?
Means the hard disc (or something) is scratched, same happened to mine, itl cost around £60 to fix and a pc repair man should be able to save your files.
Dont phone up your insurance company, they make you jump through hoops just to put your premiums up the following year.

[Gordy]

the drive may have just become unseated ...pop the cover off and reseat it ....if the drive wasnt in use at the time then it prob wouldnt have damaged it.. fingers crossed

[Bluefish]

Cheers gordy will try later, i dont think it was on when it was dropped btw.

[Gordy]

the arm is usually in rest position off of the actual drive when not in use ...thats not to say it cant be knocked and damage the drive by the force of the drop but hopefully you will be ok ...if it does start working again then do a disc scan so that any bad or damaged sectors can be detected and avoided.

[Bluefish]

nah no joy, took out the drive cleaned the contacts and replaced, warnings vary between, no boot drive, no operating system and suchlike, it's gonna have to go to someone more puter savvy than me. You can go into f2 and the settings for drives etc, but that don't mean a lot to me

[Deleted]

Last time that happened to me on a standard pc the mbr (master boot record ) had been damaged and corrupted .. had to replace the drive ...

Although it wasn't needed in my case I'm sure you can hook the drive up ( as a secondary drive ) if you need to recover anything.

[Bluefish]

cheers guy's thank's for your help, will have to see about getting data of it, even if there is any that need's to be got off.

[Deleted]

probs only book face stuff m8 so no major worries

[Gordy]

PM me Blue if you'd like me to take a look for you... ive done a fair few data recoveries in my time

[Bluefish]

storm's right only face fart stuff, and music wich can be re-loaded. Phoned the insurance company today, apparently not covered for movable devices, or movable computers anyhow, so lappy will be going to a friend's hubby to have a look at, will be a week i would have thought befor any news, will let you know what happens folks.