A few weeks back I backed up most of the the docs on my old Toshiba because it's been running slower than a one-legged horse and I intended to format it. I decided to finish the job today. However, it won't power up, instead it shuts down during boot-up. I've tried blowing cold air from the missus' hairdryer whilst booting in case it's a case of the CPU overheating, but that hasn't helped. The power source seems to be fine: The 'mains-powered' and 'battery-charging' icons are both on, However, when I power up it goes through the motions for about 3 seconds then shuts back down.
It gets worse.
As I needed access to a doc on the laptop, which I believe had been backed up on my Western Digital 'my book' external HDD I decided to connect the external HDD to my newer Dell laptop. I asked the missus the hand me the power lead. I didn't realise that she passed me the power lead for the Toshiba. After about 5 seconds (just after it appeared in 'my computer') the external HDD suddenly died. It was then that I realised the missus had handed me the wrong power lead. So, now I'm in a situation where my Toshiba won't boot and my external HDD appears to close to-death. I say 'close-to-death' because their is still something there: The blue power light is flashing, which gives me hope that their is a change it hasn't been fried. (Maybe an internal fuse or diode has shorted to protect the drive from frying??)
It gets worse.
As I needed access to a doc on the laptop, which I believe had been backed up on my Western Digital 'my book' external HDD I decided to connect the external HDD to my newer Dell laptop. I asked the missus the hand me the power lead. I didn't realise that she passed me the power lead for the Toshiba. After about 5 seconds (just after it appeared in 'my computer') the external HDD suddenly died. It was then that I realised the missus had handed me the wrong power lead. So, now I'm in a situation where my Toshiba won't boot and my external HDD appears to close to-death. I say 'close-to-death' because their is still something there: The blue power light is flashing, which gives me hope that their is a change it hasn't been fried. (Maybe an internal fuse or diode has shorted to protect the drive from frying??)
