Depends a bit on the age of the laptop and how expensive replacing it is vs just getting it repaired. If the repair is done competently, then the likely hood of corrosion just coming back is low but never 0%.
#Laptop corrosion
wanton hound
If you really need the laptop to be reliably repaired without having to worry about corrosion causing new issues down the line, then replacing the mobo is your best bet.
hexed moth
I think the technician was planning on replacing the motherboard, still, he said the issue may come up again
The computer was a couple years old
wanton hound
The technician probably meant that they're able to replace the motherboard which will make the laptop functional again, but are not able to figure out what caused it to get corroded in the first place.
hexed moth
Im thinking of buying a new one instead for around $400, would a laptop at that price last for a decent time without being too slow on non demanding tasks?
wanton hound
Depends a bit on what you're doing but you can get a refurbished ThinkPad for way less than that which will last you a good long while.
hexed moth
Just browsing and watching films.
Last question, you can't add an internal harddrive to a laptop but you can replace one right? For one with more space
wanton hound
Last question, you can't add an internal harddrive to a laptop but you can repla...
Again, depends a bit on the model but some laptops do have expansion space available that would allow you to add another drive to it. If you replace the main drive, you would have to reinstall the operating system.
hexed moth
Even if the harddrive had windows installed in it? If that makes sense, it belongs to the damaged laptop, hopefully ill be able to get it.
austere sable
sup guys was wondering if i could get help on my new post
wanton hound
Even if the harddrive had windows installed in it? If that makes sense, it belon...
It would probably boot okay, but it would definitely be unhappy. It's always recommended to do a fresh install of the operating system if you change system configuration.
hexed moth
Can you reinstall windows without deleting files, in case it doesn't work? I know that's an option when you're in the computer
untold light
Im thinking of buying a new one instead for around $400, would a laptop at that ...
are you in the US?
hexed moth
No
hexed moth
why are you asking?
Dont want my files deleted but might have to reinstall the OS, when replacing a harddrive with my old one
untold light
when replacing a harddrive with my old one
what
this whole premise makes no sense
why are you reinstalling windows at all
if you just want to recover the stuff off the old laptop like
you can do that without replacing your laptops new drive with the old one, which is what I think you're asking about doing??
hexed moth
if you just want to recover the stuff off the old laptop like
My laptop broke, im buying a new laptop, a cheaper one, so the harddrives will be smaller and id probably like to replace them with my old ones, on top of recovering the files. If I replace the harddrive of a computer I'd probably have to reinstall the OS like someone said above, which im not sure can be done without deleting all files, and do not know of any other way I could recover those files, if I could I'd do so before swapping the drive.
untold light
this is a bad idea for a number of reasons
any $400 laptop you buy today should have at least a 1TB SSD
your old laptop, you're saying Hard Drive. Do you mean a mechanical, spinning 2.5" drive? or do you mean an SSD?
your best bet is probably just to copy the files off the drive. you take it out of the old laptop, use a $10 sata-to-USB dongle and copy what you want out of your /documents and /downloads folders
the reason I asked if you were in the US, I wanted to help you find a new laptop lol
the reason why you don't want to downgrade a new laptop with an SSD to your old mechanical hard drive, well, it should be obvious. it would make your new shiny computer just as slow as your old one. you're saying "a few" years old. how old?
and you're saying "more storage"... how much?
hexed moth
From what I've seen, at that price I could only get around 500gb of storage and that's pretty rare aswell, and refurbished. Im outside the US and prices are higher.
The old laptop had a ssd of around 250gb and a hdd of 1tb , the new laptop would be much cheaper hence the storage would be lower and replacing the harddrives for my older ones would probably be an upgrade not a downgrade.
The laptop was around 4 years old.
Didn't know that I could transfer files without connecting the drive to a computer, ill look into it, thanks.
hexed moth
It would **probably** boot okay, but it would definitely be unhappy. It's always...
Getting an error - " No bootable device found"