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First, allow me to explain the situation:
I recently moved back to the states (for college) from living abroad, and in the shipping of my computer, something was damaged. I personally tested it out with everything to my ability and couldn't find the source to fix myself. So I contact my parents, explain the problem to them and they get in contact with the shipping company via their employers. After loads of paperwork, I'm told I have to take the computer into a legit shop to have it checked out. This was in late July. In the months between now and then I've been wading through paperwork, waiting for the years worth of money to come in from congress, more paperwork, and finally I'm just waiting for the money to get to me (everything's been approved for them to pay me for damages). The PC repair shop that I had taken it too said that it was something wrong with the processor or the motherboard, thats about all I know from their diagnosis.
So I have this unfixed computer sitting in my room, and I'd really like to be able to access more than the 30 gigs of harddrive space my laptop has.
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Second, allow me to explain the problem:
Upon turning on the computer, it will boot up to windows, then shut down completely. For a while before it went into the shop the computer would work -decently- if I laid it down on its side, but the problem persisted and I had some sort of error (I know this is vague, but there is no error code. It's like my graphics would just glitch if it ran too long, they would go all jagged, but still recognizable as a picture, then freeze, I'm sorry, I can't really tell you anything more than that). Now the computer doesn't even work when laying on its side.
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Third, allow me to introduce my question:
I have a laptop in which I can do all of my basic websurfing, school work, etc on. Being as I am a gamer, though, it's not really powerful enough to handle the things I play. I've also almost used up the 30 gigs of space it has (with only one game >1 gig and a few things I've ripped off CDs to put on my iPod or aquired recently and want to back up). But is there any way I can either fix the problem or attach my hard drives to my laptop to use their space. My four hard drives are all SATA, my laptop does not have a SATA port (of course, its just a basic laptop). I don't really have the tools to make any converters or something, and the only thing ordering something online would do is allow me to use the HD space before I ordered replacement/upgrade parts with the money allotted to me by the shipping company.
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I apologize for the long post, but I wish to give as much detail as possible. Thank you for taking the time to read it. Please tell me if you need more info (comp specs, more description on the problem, etc.) and I will repost promptly if possible.
And by the way, the moral of the story is: Don't let the military ship your babies.
I recently moved back to the states (for college) from living abroad, and in the shipping of my computer, something was damaged. I personally tested it out with everything to my ability and couldn't find the source to fix myself. So I contact my parents, explain the problem to them and they get in contact with the shipping company via their employers. After loads of paperwork, I'm told I have to take the computer into a legit shop to have it checked out. This was in late July. In the months between now and then I've been wading through paperwork, waiting for the years worth of money to come in from congress, more paperwork, and finally I'm just waiting for the money to get to me (everything's been approved for them to pay me for damages). The PC repair shop that I had taken it too said that it was something wrong with the processor or the motherboard, thats about all I know from their diagnosis.
So I have this unfixed computer sitting in my room, and I'd really like to be able to access more than the 30 gigs of harddrive space my laptop has.
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Second, allow me to explain the problem:
Upon turning on the computer, it will boot up to windows, then shut down completely. For a while before it went into the shop the computer would work -decently- if I laid it down on its side, but the problem persisted and I had some sort of error (I know this is vague, but there is no error code. It's like my graphics would just glitch if it ran too long, they would go all jagged, but still recognizable as a picture, then freeze, I'm sorry, I can't really tell you anything more than that). Now the computer doesn't even work when laying on its side.
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Third, allow me to introduce my question:
I have a laptop in which I can do all of my basic websurfing, school work, etc on. Being as I am a gamer, though, it's not really powerful enough to handle the things I play. I've also almost used up the 30 gigs of space it has (with only one game >1 gig and a few things I've ripped off CDs to put on my iPod or aquired recently and want to back up). But is there any way I can either fix the problem or attach my hard drives to my laptop to use their space. My four hard drives are all SATA, my laptop does not have a SATA port (of course, its just a basic laptop). I don't really have the tools to make any converters or something, and the only thing ordering something online would do is allow me to use the HD space before I ordered replacement/upgrade parts with the money allotted to me by the shipping company.
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I apologize for the long post, but I wish to give as much detail as possible. Thank you for taking the time to read it. Please tell me if you need more info (comp specs, more description on the problem, etc.) and I will repost promptly if possible.
And by the way, the moral of the story is: Don't let the military ship your babies.