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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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 Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: laptop harddrives |
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after a mere 6 months (jesus! things aren't built to last), my "new" dell laptop's hard drive upped and called it quits. I've gotten over my sense of loss and mourning (i spent hours ripping all my cds back home onto this), now I just need to figure out how to get the thing workin again so I'm not in this pc room.
anyway, are there any places that will throw a new hard drive in for me? if not, i think i can do it myself (i've done it on a desktop before), but will i easily be able to distinguish "laptop" hard drives? also, what's a goodp lace to buy? technomart, yongsan? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| 6 months? Damn, I'd be on the horn with Dell demanding a replacement. |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| i would, but how easy is it to do that from korea? bought the thing stateside right before i left. |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| actually, i take that back..warranty it expired end of february. d'oh. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject: Re: laptop harddrives |
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| alphakennyone wrote: |
after a mere 6 months (jesus! things aren't built to last), my "new" dell laptop's hard drive upped and called it quits. I've gotten over my sense of loss and mourning (i spent hours ripping all my cds back home onto this), now I just need to figure out how to get the thing workin again so I'm not in this pc room.
anyway, are there any places that will throw a new hard drive in for me? if not, i think i can do it myself (i've done it on a desktop before), but will i easily be able to distinguish "laptop" hard drives? also, what's a goodp lace to buy? technomart, yongsan? |
There are a couple laptop repair places in yongsan - space 9 building (attached to the station) 6th floor if I remember (was't paying attention to laptop stuff last week) against the back wall.
Look at the map in the yongsan sticky and there are other "service centers" or just ask the laptop guys there where to get parts...
They are usually quite helpful. I prefer yongsan over technomart, (especially outside of the station building) but that is just a personal preference. Prices and service are comparable. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 2:22 am Post subject: |
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I second about Yongsan. I was told by someone who knows the market to go there for service when my laptop died..........wrote about it here a month or so ago.
It was the 6th floor, little stall in the middle , at the side. Sorry can't help you much more, my girlfriend handled the practical stuff. I will ask if she still has the bill/business card. But he did a quick , prompt job and was upfront about what it all entailed. I'd take a Korean along though.......
DD
PS. I'd consider buying an external hard drive for a laptop, if you keep important stuff on it.....worth the hundred bucks for 200GB of storage. |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 3:42 am Post subject: |
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| yeah i wish i had kept an external hard drive right about now.... |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 4:54 am Post subject: |
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Most modern laptops have HDs that are easy to swap. The only thing you have to watch for is they might have some kind of interface slapped on the IDE drive's male pins. You have to pull that off.
Buy two HDs. One for your laptop and one for a USB 2.0/firewire case. Use the second one for backup. |
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