Things we have done in the past that worked: 1. Remove the drive, grab it, and shake the hell out of it: "What could it hurt? It's not working anyway…." 2. Place the drive in a freezer for about 10 minutes. 3. Open the drive case in a lamina

• Carefully remove it from the computer. • Place it in the freezer for 24 hours, then put it back in the computer. You should have approximately 30 minutes of good spin time left before a fina–l—and much more permanen–t&m

Here are some drive recovery tricks that have worked for me, in the order that I do them. Try booting the drive and copying the data off after every step. 1. Hold the drive upside down, making gravity change the head geometry ever so slightly. Verti

My situation: Half of a volume set goes south on a WinNT server, no good backup and an angry boss screaming about the data being mission critical. My solution: ** A bit unorthodox but, it has saved my butt! ** • Turn off the server. • Take

Q: in my memory, there’s always a file named “player” txt format document (with 1KB size), no matter how, I cannot delete it, even I format the flash memory, the file would appear automatically again. With antivirus software (with

File secrecy has always been a topic often mentioned about, and there are a lot of articles for this aspect, of course every one uses different ways. Here I will introduce a more effective method, namely, to create a safe and secret folder first wit

How to disable downloading software on computer? This problem could not be solved for a long time! (As there’s policy from the top level, also there’s the solution from people), although you can hardly stop some “rookies” dow

When upgrade hardware (such as motherboard, CPU), usually you would also reinstall operation system, and then some software and individual settings in the original system could only be discarded? No, today I will introduce a method to replant the or

Once printer starts background printing function, then the printing task would be first sent to background folder, so that could be printed later. However, by default status, usually system would set the background folder of printer on system partit

Today I got one Toshiba A100 laptop, the problem is that it could not charge. It’s a new model, so we are not so experienced with this type of laptop. Client complained that when plug the power adapter, the laptop could not charge. Laptop fail

Few days ago, I was obliged to repair one laptop, although it seems quite not like disk problem. But after I changed the disk, the problem was solved then. Here’s one HP-G60 laptop with the problems below. When I press the power button, the la

Yesterday, I repaired my laptop LCD damaged by water. The screen itself could work normally, but there are two problems. -Previous user got water pulled on it accidently, somehow there was no idea how water entered the LCD, and then left the dirt in

If your laptop could not start up at all, or it could start but not like normally it does, then you can fix these problems even at home, but no need to take to repair center. Here are some troubleshooting methods, I am not sure whether this could vo

The explanation below will help you know how to disassemble laptop keyboard and replace it. I don’t cover all machine types, but you can learn the rough meaning. The steps to disassemble and replace keyboard are proper for most laptops. Warnin

You replaced the broken LCD on your laptop with one new LCD, but it still fails to work. It sounds like the problem you’ve ever met before? Let’s find out the cause of the problem together and how to solve this problem. First of all, we

We do not host the drivers on laptoprepair.ca we only point to the last known download location. Some download links may not be working while others may redirect you to the publisher's website to initiate the download there. This is because some dr

The direction below will help teach you how to remove laptop keyboard and replace it. This article doesn’t cover all models, but you may get a rough meaning, the disassembling steps are proper for most laptops. Warning: -If your laptop is stil

Additions and edits by bloke. This Limited Warranty does not cover...damage due to... Be sure to remove all third party hardware, software, features, parts, options, alterations, and attachments not warranted by Toshiba prior to sending the produ

Additions and edits by bloke. This Limited Warranty does not cover...damage due to... Be sure to remove all third party hardware, software, features, parts, options, alterations, and attachments not warranted by Toshiba prior to sending the produ

The basic repairing is an effective way in dealing with slightly overheating. This method does not require opening the laptop case. This method does not require opening the laptop case.

Additions and edits by bloke. This Limited Warranty does not cover...damage due to... Be sure to remove all third party hardware, software, features, parts, options, alterations, and attachments not warranted by HP-Compaq prior to sending the prod

Additions and edits by bloke. This Limited Warranty does not cover...damage due to... Be sure to remove all third party hardware, software, features, parts, options, alterations, and attachments not warranted by HP-Compaq prior to sending the prod

Additions and edits by bloke. This Limited Warranty does not cover...damage due to... Be sure to remove all third party hardware, software, features, parts, options, alterations, and attachments not warranted by HP-Compaq prior to sending the prod

Additions and edits by bloke. This Limited Warranty does not cover...damage due to... Be sure to remove all third party hardware, software, features, parts, options, alterations, and attachments not warranted by HP-Compaq prior to sending the prod

Additions and edits by bloke. This Limited Warranty does not cover...damage due to... Be sure to remove all third party hardware, software, features, parts, options, alterations, and attachments not warranted by HP-Compaq prior to sending the prod