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Originally Posted by Drury18
The biggest issue now is that the screen is going and I'm not sure when it will cut out and since I'm not completely sure how to remove an HD from one computer and put it somewhere else I don't want to risk losing alot of the information on it. The second issue is it has started running hot constantly (within 5 minutes of being turned on) and the fan is always going and I'm getting auto shut offs pretty frequently even after taking all sorts of steps to keep the laptop and every cool so I figure this thing might only have a matter of time before it decides to go anyway.
I would like to get everything off that laptop and onto something else for piece of mind. I had a laptop a couple years ago that I didn't do this with when I was getting signs it was dying and a couple days later the whole thing went. Lost a bunch of baby pics, music and work documents. I don't want to do the 25+ DVD option so I was exploring other ways to store documents.
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Sounds like your backlight inverter is dying and your heatsink is clogged with dust. Do you still have your old laptop that went a couple years ago? The data is probably perfectly fine on the harddrive inside it. I'd open up the bottom of the laptop and blow out the heatsink and fan from the inside with compressed air. It's an easy fix. The backlight inverter however is not.
Which model is your current laptop? Most laptops just have a panel accessible by a few screws and your harddrive pops right out the bottom.
Again, if your screen dies, your data is still most likely still perfectly safe.