So I have an Acer laptop that broke and the screen is basically dead. The guy replaced the band and it still wouldn’t work.
I figured I would try to open it up and transfer the files myself but the hard drive looks odd and apparently is fused to the motherboard.
Will a universal hard drive adapter still work on this so I can hook it up to another laptop and get my files?
Pic of the back
wtf hard drive soldered to the board? is this some kind of mac? if the problem is just the screen just turn it on with a cable on a tv or something. if the ssd is really soldered so its your problem for buying SHIT
If only the screen is dead, then you should plug in an external monitor then transfer out your data regularly.
turn it on using the hdmi port connected to a screen you dumb ass
How about you remove that RF-shield or heatspreader or whatever it is that covers the whole board and actually show what's on there?
Is this some kind of chromebook?
Tried hdmi, tech did as well, no dice.
These.
Also It’s an Acer aspire cloud book 14
>emmc
lmao, just give up. These crapbooks are only meant to store any valuable data in the botnet, you have only yourself to blame for 1) getting one in the first place and 2) having gotten one, not doing so.
If it's a cloud book, shouldn't all your data be in the cloud?
Amirite?
I mean, to be sure, it's perfectly possible to recover eMMC storage, as long as the chip is alright, but from the way you wrote the OP, you don't have the skills to do so, but if you want to go for it, don't let that stop you.
It will, however, require heatgunning the BGA chip off the motherboard and resoldering it onto a MicroSD dummy connector. I really don't know just how compatible eMMC is with standard SD or whether there will be extra passives and/or voltage conversion required, but there are eMMC-to-MicroSD adapters available.
If none of that sounds appetizing to you, however, then you really only have yourself to blame for getting an eMMC craptop to begin with.
Yep. He should probably bring it to a data recovery specialist and pay $500+ for professional help?
thats what happens when you pay just $100 on hardware
>buy cloudbook
>store everything locally
>surprised when storage isn't detachable
Imagine being this much of a boomer in 2019
Also, that being said, it might be easier to just try and fix the motherboard so that it works again. It's not rare that it's some very simple fault, like a shorted cap, loose connector or whatever. Again, try removing that heatspreader and take a good-quality, high-resolution image of the board and post it. Someone might very well be able to spot the fault.
It's not the price since MacBooks would leave you in the same position. Even can't chalk it up to manufacturer. My cousin asked me to upgrade the RAM in her HP Spectre x360, which is something I found out I could do in my Envy x360 of the same year but not in the Spectre.
The motherboard isn’t broken. The screen is, the band/wire that connects the cover to the keyboard seems to have ripped so it turns on but nothing goes to the screen and for some godforsaken reason hdmi isn’t working.
Someone across the street is offering me like 180 to transfer all the files to a different computer. Should I go for it?
>The motherboard isn’t broken. The screen is,
If the HDMI connector doesn't work either, there's clearly something wrong with the motherboard.
>it turns on but nothing goes to the screen
Why do you assume there's just something with the screen, rather than with something like the display controller, the connection from it to the screen, some decoupling cap on that trace, &c?
>Someone across the street is offering me like 180 to transfer all the files to a different computer. Should I go for it?
I wouldn't bet that he's overrating his own skills, but please try and report back so that we can all ridicule the guy across the street for thinking he could fix your eMMC.
Does the keyboard work? Try FN + F5 or FN + F6 with an external monitor plugged in and see if it works. Try each of those combinations a couple of times. Wait like 10 seconds between each attempt.
Maybe you need to press Fn+F4 or something to manually select the HDMI output.
Find the function key that has a picture resembling pic related. Then hold the FN key and press the function key with the similar picture.
win+p also
I have to ask this and understand I am not trying to be mean. Why the hell did you even buy this thing and not store the shit in the cloud or have physical back ups? is the data you want to recover even going to be worth it in the end?
The reason I doubt it’s the motherboard is because I was having issues with the hinge for ages. It literally shut off on me after being bent too far slightly on vacation.
The motherboard was fine.
I didn’t expect to have to put anything important on it, I got it to use for YouTube and basic online programs.
STFU retard do this:
>The reason I doubt it’s the motherboard is because I was having issues with the hinge for ages. It literally shut off on me after being bent too far slightly on vacation.
If there's something loose on the motherboard (cracked solder, for instance), it's perfectly conceivable that the small amount of flex introduced by straining the hinge is causing intermittent failures for such reasons. Is there anything else indicating proper operation apart from missing display, like blinking indicator lights or whatever?
I tried all the fn + stuff. Didn’t work. Maybe the hdmi port was just fucked.
Try it again without holding FN then. Some laptops have FN lock on by default.
Also, try powering it up with the internal display disconnected. That might prompt it to use the HDMI connector.
Nothing, I believe the sound worked fine too before I took out the motherboard.
So should I junk it? I really want the files on it man, I’m willing to pay for it but I want to know if it’s possible.
Can’t really do anything hdmi related at this point given I took it apart assuming I could link the cables to it and transfer the files.
Not knowing this piece of crap was badly designed. I assumed the hard drive was a normal one.
>I’m willing to pay for it but I want to know if it’s possible.
As I already said, it's perfectly possible to recover eMMC storage as long as that chip itself is fine. If you're prepared to pay for it, any data-recovery specialist worth his salt should be able to do so, though it probably won't be cheap. It's also perfectly possible, though not easy, to go the aforementioned DIY route of desoldering the chip and adapting it to a MicroSD connector. And it might also, again, be perfectly possible to repair the computer enough to get the files off it, depending on what the problem is.
>Buying a Laptop with eMMC storage instead of a real HDD.
You fucking deserve this losing your data.
>badly designed
Given the intended usecase, it's probably perfectly adequately designed.
What if I buy another cloud book and swap the motherboard?
Give it back, Tyrone
If you're really that sure that it's just the display that's broken, then yes, that should work. I'm not as sure as you are that it isn't the motherboard that's broken, though.