Hi Kin, Battery World off Barlow, near the Toad & Turtle, rebuilds some batteries for less than half the price of rebuilding. You can call them with the specs and get a price over the phone. I have a VAR account with them so if you like I can do the same and will be able to get you a better price if they can rebuild it.
Let me know, Dave Watkins www.LinuxWest.ca 701-5746 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kin C Wong Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 12:07 AM To: CLUG General Subject: [clug-talk] Laptop with a weak battery (sorry, long post) I probably wouldn't be writing this email if the laptop was running Linux, however, the story does involve Linux. I was trying to check my email quickly on a laptop that has a battery life of about 10 minutes on a full charge. I was mistaken, it has deteriorated to less than 2 minutes. The laptop of course powers down immediately after about 2 minutes and a file in the System directory is corrupted and will not reboot. Simple, reload the operating system or repair the operating system (would be if were Linux). I have the hard drive partitioned so that the OS is on one partition and the data is on another. Recently I moved to Thunderbird for an email client but did not redirect the data files from its default location so I need to recover that before I reload the OS. I tried fixing the OS first, but it came with the cheaper Home version of OS which does not come with a proper OS disk, only a recovery disk where it would happily reformat your whole hard drive -- data, partitions and all. Tried recovering from the Professional version of the OS, but it booted me out because it was the wrong version. No problem, I will just backup what little data I have on the OS partition and restore a backup image -- to do this job, I am going to use Linux. Booted up the hard drive using Mepis, it recognizes the everything on the laptop as well as an external USB hard drive and an external USB DVD RW. I tried copying the directory I needed to another partition on the hard drive and to the external USB hard drive -- both strategy failed, protocol device not supported. Does anybody know why? Next tried Knoppix Live and Linspire Live but with the same result. As a matter of fact, the external USB hard drive is formated in NTFS, something I also typically don't do, I rather use Fat32 so that I can access the data using DOS as well. On this drive, I used NTFS, just testing and trying it out. After looking at the data using Linux, I no longer can access the data using windoze however I still can using Linux. I search of Google indicates that Linux is tempermental with NTFS but works quite reliably with Fat32. Next solution, copy the files that I need to a DVD using K3b on Linux -- that worked really easily, don't know why I have been putting off burning CDs and DVDs on Linux until now, it was really simple. Morale of the story, if you have a weak battery on a laptop and running windoze, make sure the power supply is plugged in or be prepared to be down for a long time -- if you are using Linux, be prepare to fetch and plug in the power supply. OK, I am convinced, my communication to moving over to Linux as well -- there are not may apps left on the dark side :-) . Anyone have any experience rebuilding laptop batteries? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
