[chicken little]

Is a laptop that has been snapped in half I persumme the screen disable from the keypad any good can we retrieve anything ie.pictures that was on it restored.It was done through a very messy seperation between my son and now ex wife

[Tess_B]

I would imagine that the hard drive may be salvagable unless she has really gone all out to completely destroy the laptop. If the hard drive is intact, you will be able to remove it from the laptop itself and take it to a local computer shop - they should be able to pull the data off there for you, but they do charge for this service it can be expensive.

Hope this helps, and hope the situation is a little easier for you now (I'm twice divorced, so I know how it goes).

Tess

[JohnWill]

Originally Posted by Tess_B

Hope this helps, and hope the situation is a little easier for you now (I'm twice divorced, so I know how it goes).

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

[Tess_B]

Yes ineed - I have learned it well ;-D

[buck52]

can't you just hook up a seperate keyboard and monitor to the base lappy and use it... We had to do this at work a few year ago so I don't remember the details but it worked fine

[chicken little]

cant even switch it on so e went out and bought another one thanks everyone for your advice

[stormyonell]

I have had success removing an INTACT hard drive from a laptop and connecting it to my desktop machine to retrieve the data.
If you go to a computer supply store and tell them what you want to do they can help you find the correct cable to run to the motherboard of the desktop machine.
The one I bought was $15.00, much cheaper than having a shop recover the files.