Busted lap top

[Homer1968]

Folks my lap top with map source and my routes is completely bolloxed after it fell out of my rucksack on the way home from work. I know the next questions will be about insurance etc, none starter.
My question is can i put map source on my daughters i pad or do i need to buy another( cheap) lap top to help me with routes. I am a complete technophobe so please keep your advice simple for me. Any advice appreciated

 

[cookie]

Map source will not run on an ipad.

 

[Schtum]

Map source will not run on an ipad.

Interesting that the only Garmin mapping app for iPad is Blue Chart.....

 

[Fanum]

Folks my lap top with map source and my routes is completely bolloxed after it fell out of my rucksack on the way home from work. I know the next questions will be about insurance etc, none starter.
My question is can i put map source on my daughters i pad or do i need to buy another( cheap) lap top to help me with routes. I am a complete technophobe so please keep your advice simple for me. Any advice appreciated

There's a very good chance that the hard drive from your knackered laptop will be intact....EG, you can retrieve your saved routes from it.

all you need to access them is a thingy like this:

It's a usb hard drive enclosure....that one is 7 quid from Amazon but we'd need to know the model of your shagged laptop to make sure you get the right one.

You'd take your old Hard drive out of the old lappy (piece of piss, trust me) and slot it in, connect it and plug it in to your new cheap laptop, or any PC.

You would have to instal Mapsource onto the new machine to read the old routes, but that's easy, with or without the original discs.

If your biggest worry is getting to your saved routes, that's the way forwards.....if you just want to start again, go for a cheap basic laptop running XP or Windows 7 (even W8 if you have no choice) and go from there

All is not lost

 

[Homer1968]

Cheers folks, i appreciate your advice

 

[Myke Rocks]

Think of:

Going on Ebay, and buying an absolutely identical laptop.
Swap hard drives, and you have everything back with no grief.
I do it regularly when I wreck a laptop on site.
Myke

 

[Daisy Duke]

Going on Ebay, and buying an absolutely identical laptop.
Swap hard drives, and you have everything back with no grief.
I do it regularly when I wreck a laptop on site.
Myke

Best solution. I did the same when my motherboard died, only cost me £50 for the second hand one off eBay