Daniel Bareiro: > Next week I'll take the notebook to the supplier for the test with a new > battery. They offered doing tests with a new battery for an entire day. > I think I'm going to suggest them to use a liveCD as System Rescue CD or > something like that, since the disk is encrypted. Although I'm not sure > if they will feel comfortable using GNU/Linux (and I don't know if there > is liveCD's with Windows).
There is the installation disk that would boot up, I haven't tried this madness of installing windows on a thumbstick, I have managed to install full systems on them. If your hd needs to be encrypted I wouldn't trust it on anyone and walk away from it. Eventually if it is copied out it may get decrypted given sufficient time and resources. It is pretty simple to take a HD out and a service dept. know how to deal with a laptop without a hd. So don't hand them out your data if you don't care to share them. > Kind regards, > Daniel Simple electrical tests, like voltage measured on contacts can tell you whether the battery holds charge and whether the charge circuit goes on or not. In 90% of the time it is a failing battery.