James, if you haven’t sent the tablet back in, there is a way you can get your data off the hard drive if it’s any good.

If it’s an SATA hard drive you can simply hook it up to any desktop computer that has a serial ATA port and power connector.

If it’s not SATA or you don’t have access to a computer with an SATA port, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812156102

Buy that, plug it into a USB 2.0 port, and see if it will work. Plus it’s also handy to have around.

Damn, that’s definitely not the wisdom I was hoping for or expecting. Sorry for kidding around earlier. I honestly figured you had lost maybe a couple days of data, if any, and were stuck with a small screen for a bit, which is nothing to sneeze at but certainly not terminal. A few weeks of data though, that’s really rough. I am sincerely sorry to hear that, and of course for your TC1100 too.

Nick, Kevin may be crazy but I’m not.

Mark, I have redundancy built into my work for just such times as this. It’s expensive and I shouldn’t always buy equipment when I do, but it serves its purpose in an emergency. I do backup very regularly and while most of my data arrived intact I found that two pieces of my data was not backed up for the past few weeks due to some unknown file error during the backup. It goes to show even if you do automatic backups you should occasionally check the log files to make sure everything came through as you thought it did. Hopefully HP can salvage my hard drive, although I’m not holding my breath.

Losing my main Tablet is a big deal because I take pages and pages of notes every single day. As I said in the post, I can do that on the Sony but the small screen is a big limiter in how detailed I make those notes.

OMG! How will you get by with only your Core Duo notebook, Sony U71, and Treo 700? ;P

Sorry, couldn’t help but point out just how hooked up you are even without your tablet. It is a painful blow, especially given what a great tablet it is (I would be through-the-roof), but for nearly anyone else, this would be a critical loss, as opposed to a major inconvenience. Apparently it takes more than 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to immobilize the All-Father of Mobile Computing.

All levity aside though, hardware loss is one thing; software loss is another. I’m sure you have a solid backup system and backed up before the recent move, but things can fall to the wayside during transition and restoration isn’t necessarily seamless. In other words, how’s your data? Hope you can share some wisdom (and not a painful lesson) on this.

Sorry to read about where paper has it’s advantages, and sorry to hear about what happened to your hp. A dead Tablet can really mess things up especially when it is your primary everyday tool. I hope things get better and your tablet will be repaired quickly and without problems.

//F2theD

And there was me thinking you’d follow in Kevin’s footsteps and leave it to the jkontherun readers to decide which tablet pc you should buy next

Thanks everybody. Stu, generous offer but my tc1100 has a 3 year warranty. Now to see how well HP performs for that.

James, I know this would be a good time for you to look at other new tablet offerings, but I thought I’d let you know that I have a TC 1100 that I could sell you. Name a fair price and I would let it go. Quick shipping.

Too bad JK. That must really hurt. Then again this might be the time to look at a duo core tablet or an Origami, or a Sony UX.

Gorodn

Sorry to hear about your difficulties. Ouch.