Can I save the memory from my dead laptop? - 1
Added (1). My daughter dropped my Lenovo Ideapad S210 laptop. It will no longer turn on. I took it to Microsoft and they said that the motherboard no longer works and that I will need a new one. Can I still retrieve the memory (such as pictures) from the old motherboard?
The stored items are on the hard drive, and the S210 has a standard 2.5 inch SATA Hard disk drive.
You can remove the hard drive and put it in a SATA-USB Enclosure and use it as an external HDD on another laptop and copy things between them. Files may show an "ownership" that properties may need changing to copy or edit them.
The enclosures are sold at Amazon, electronics retail stores, and online sellers
http://www.newegg.com/...isNodeId=1
You need to check interface to the storage is SATA instead of IDE or PATA very old ones, and the interface to another PC is USB 2 or 3 as you choose for the other PC.
The cost starts at about $7 and some are tool-less.
$7 in the USA, simple and easy
http://www.newegg.com/...0003-000H3
The hardest part is getting the hard drive out of the S210, but if scrapping it anyway or selling for parts, it is not a big deal to lose screws or break it even worse.
To put what Andy L said in layman terms. Yes, your stuff such as pictures, music and documents are safe. Because they are in the hard drive, not the motherboard. (The hard drive is pretty much where all your files are and the motherboard is the brain of a computer.)
If you're not exactly a techi-savvy like myself, it is recommended to see that motherboard replaced by a professional, buying a new laptop might be a little expensive. However, if you really don't mind a new laptop or a used laptop at that, you can ask a professional to transfer your files from your non-working one into the working laptop.
Of course you can. As long as they aren't damaged and what killed the laptop. Memory had different placement of the gap for each rang of memory, like DDR2 is different than DDR3 and you can't change one for the other