Laptop Died, What Now For My iPhone and Pad?

[wrkactjob]

Got home from work to see a blue screen of death with hysterical messages about Hardware Failure on my Dell ( yeah I know sorry) laptop.

I will try to reinstall Windows 7 tonight but what future is there now for my phone and pad?....

I guess I will have to reinstall iTunes from fresh.....have I lost everything?

 

[Sirolway]

Well, if you don't have a backup of your laptop ... (tut tut!).

Options....

a. Turn on 'Back up to iCloud' on your iDevices - this should store all your lovely content at Apple & you should get it back if you ever wipe it

b. Don't touch your crashed Dell disk. Instead, get a new (bigger?) hard disk + an enclosure. Put the new disk in your Dell & install to that. Put your old disk in the enclosure & recover your data to the new disk (including your iTunes liibrary). Now use the old disk + enclosure as your backup drive.
Or you could sign up to an online backup solution like DropBox 50GB, SpiderOak, Mozy, Carbonite - possibly as well as having a backup drive at home ... one backs up fast, the other backs up off site ...

Good luck!

Oh, and buy a Mac ;-)

 

[wrkactjob]

Well, if you don't have a backup of your laptop ... (tut tut!).

Options....

a. Turn on 'Back up to iCloud' on your iDevices - this should store all your lovely content at Apple & you should get it back if you ever wipe it

b. Don't touch your crashed Dell disk. Instead, get a new (bigger?) hard disk + an enclosure. Put the new disk in your Dell & install to that. Put your old disk in the enclosure & recover your data to the new disk (including your iTunes liibrary). Now use the old disk + enclosure as your backup drive.
Or you could sign up to an online backup solution like DropBox 50GB, SpiderOak, Mozy, Carbonite - possibly as well as having a backup drive at home ... one backs up fast, the other backs up off site ...

Good luck!

Oh, and buy a Mac ;-)

Hmmm yes since buying my wife a Macbook Air for Christmas I have been thinking of converting...

If I take option a) and back up to iCloud will it save everything thats on my two devices (identical data)? Ie all music photos films and apps or just certain things?

I think that there is third party software that will download everything from you i device to a new blank version of iTunes but have never used it.