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I'm bumming. Laptop died, will not even turn on. Files on the laptop are not backed up. It will take me hours if not days to reproduce the files or enter the information.

The sad thing is I have an expense report that needs turned in. Thousands of dollars in travel expenses on a spread sheet that I will have to do again. At least I have all the receipts so all I'm out is my time to enter the information on a new spread sheet.

Back up you computer so you don't have to spend all weekend trying to recover your files if you can recover/reproduce them at all.
 
Often the hard drive (or SSD) can be removed, placed in an external USB case and accessed from another computer. Check with local pc repair places if you don’t have the skills.
 
I pay $69.99 a year for a Microsoft 365 account. That gives me the full MS office suite and 1tb of storage on OneDrive. Laptop and phone gets automatically backed up. Well worth it.
 
Groundpounder said:
I pay $69.99 a year for a Microsoft 365 account. That gives me the full MS office suite and 1tb of storage on OneDrive. Laptop and phone gets automatically backed up. Well worth it.
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I have that as well but the password and account information is in a spread sheet in the laptop I can't turn on. I guess I'll look for someone with the skills to recover the information
 
AKBill said:
I have that as well but the password and account information is in a spread sheet in the laptop I can't turn on. I guess I'll look for someone with the skills to recover the information
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use whatever device you’re on now to log in to your account, but click “forgot password” and you should be able to reset it and log in.
 
Groundpounder said:
use whatever device you’re on now to log in to your account, but click “forgot password” and you should be able to reset it and log in.
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Using Tami's laptop. Not sure how this will help if I can't log on to my laptop. Are you saying all my files can be recovered to another laptop by the Microsoft 365 account?
 
AKBill said:
Using Tami's laptop. Not sure how this will help if I can't log on to my laptop. Are you saying all my files can be recovered to another laptop by the Microsoft 365 account?
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Yes. Onedrive items are out there waiting for you to log on and visit them.
 
Bill, first try removing the battery and see if the laptop turns on with just the power cord plugged into it. I have been saved by that trick a couple times.

If you had OneDrive running on the laptop, which typically saves documents to the cloud, then yes, you can log into your 365 account on another computer and retrieve your files from the cloud.
 
catmandu said:
Bill, first try removing the battery and see if the laptop turns on with just the power cord plugged into it. I have been saved by that trick a couple times.

If you had OneDrive running on the laptop, which typically saves documents to the cloud, then yes, you can log into your 365 account on another computer and retrieve your files from the cloud.
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Thanks I'll give that a try
 
Actually if you have paid office 365, you'll want https://portal.office.com

Log into that with your 365 user account (And the forget password link will work, provided you setup an alternate means of authentication, like phone or non 365 email.)

That will take you to a main page with access to your outlook, onedrive, office etc..

If you need any help I'm a Microsoft partner and IT consultant so PM me and I can walk you through the process.
 
Eric S said:
Actually if you have paid office 365, you'll want https://portal.office.com

Log into that with your 365 user account (And the forget password link will work, provided you setup an alternate means of authentication, like phone or non 365 email.)

That will take you to a main page with access to your outlook, onedrive, office etc..

If you need any help I'm a Microsoft partner and IT consultant so PM me and I can walk you through the process.
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Thanks Eric, I'll be playing with it a little later this morning. The Tech I talked to said it was a hardware issue. He referred me to someone that may be able to help me.
 
Well I was able to get the files restored to an external hard drive. The technician said the laptop was not salvable. So now I'm looking for a new laptop. Any suggestions? With or without CD drive? Size of SSD what is this RAM they talk about?
 
No need for a CD drive these days unless you just like ripping CDs for your wife's car or something, lol. If you're just doing basic home use with Microsoft Office or similar, just about any of the consumer models will be fine. Get one with an SSD and select the higher amount of RAM on whatever brand/model suits your fancy. HP/Dell are generally pretty safe bets.

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asicer said:
I'm pretty sure you cannot get a laptop without an SSD these days. Spinning hard drives are a thing of the past in the laptop world.
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I don't doubt it, but figured it was worth mentioning. I haven't bought a laptop ever, but SSDs were still the optional upgrade when I bought my Dell XPS desktop 2 years back. Smaller form factor and quicker boot times are probably paramount in a laptop chassis.

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asicer said:
And heat and noise and battery life.
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Heat is what killed my laptop IMHO. I don't think I ever shut it down. Just left it on and walked away. Never disconnected it from the charger and never cycled the battery.

My bad, I know better. Will do better with the next laptop...:rolleyes:

Good thing I treat my Sport the way it should be treated, I baby it every chance I can. On a side note. I have not flown since the accident that took out the vision in my right eye October 2020. I should finish the annual this week and get instruction flying mono vision shortly after. I'm really looking forward to getting back in the saddle and fly again....:)
 
asicer said:
And heat and noise and battery life.
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Yup. My 2yr old HP work laptop has an SSD, but I didn't know if the SSD was standard because it's an engineering class laptop or just par for the course on most any laptop. Either way they are worth the upgrade if it isn't standard equipment.

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AKBill said:
Heat is what killed my laptop IMHO. I don't think I ever shut it down. Just left it on and walked away. Never disconnected it from the charger and never cycled the battery.
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The latest have much better heat and battery management nowadays. In a dust-free environment, you could easily get away with that without killing anything. However, it won't do your electric bill any favors so you'll probably want to set it to go to sleep after X minutes of inactivity. Also, here in the real world you'll need to blow out the accumulated dust every now and then so you'll want to shut down when doing that.
 
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