21
2006
Top 10 tips to survive laptop disaster: what to do if your laptop is dropped, catches fire, gets ripped off, is smashed, or just plain won’t boot
Top 10 tools to use when your laptop or notebook goes belly-up or worse:
You got that laptop so you could travel with all your data and necessary programs, right? Problem is: laptops are vulnerable to all kinds of ugly scenarios: they’re easy to steal (Digital sleuthing grows on business, home fronts) they’re fragile; they catch fire; they break when dropped. Parts for laptops are usually proprietary and can take weeks to obtain; laptop repair requires special tools, special training and sometimes, off-site maintenance. Worse, when you’re on the road, and your laptop won’t boot, you’re pretty much out-of-luck, unless you’ve planned for it.
A friend of mine had this happen to him yesterday and he told me it was a major inconvenience. His laptop stopped booting and turned into a BSOD, no matter what he did. This doesn’t mean he’s dumb; most of us don’t back up: ‘Why Smart People Do Dumb Things” (Like Not Backup Their Hard Disk’; we are naturally shortsighted:. Perhaps, we jeer at the back up gods: we may secretly want to fail.
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