[off topic] Any londoners know a good 'puter repair place near the city/bishopsgate or docklands?

[Francesco Nidito]

On 24 May 2013 15:12, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 May 2013 15:03, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 01:57:09PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> >> My sister in law (trained dancer and personal trainer with almost 0 IT
> >> expertise ) has a laptop that won't boot and no backups of her
> >> important info on the hard disk - any recommendations of somewhere
> >> that can give a good honest appraisal of what's wrong with the laptop
> >> and back up the data for her would be much appreciated
> >>
> >> Somewhere near Spitalfields would probably be especially helpful
> >
> > If it's a Mac then go to the shop on Cheshire St.
>
> Afraid it's 'doze on a 5 year old samsung laptop :(


Did you already try to remove the hd from the laptop, put it in an external
hd enclosure and try to recover data from there?