Baggage damaged by airport security ^ what to do?

I have been through that airport with no problems to my laptop, but there is
really little excuse for people loosing data from their computers. If you
don't back up important data, then I have no sympathy.

As for the "trashed" laptop, claim on your travel insurance.
As for your data, take the hard disk out and put it in another "working"
laptop. You should be able to recover your files. I have done this before
on a "broken" laptop.




"Not the Karl Orff" <canwine@nome.com> wrote in message
news:canwine-2E9657.15013728072004@news.va.shawcable.net...
> In article <7e6gg0tb00mnggn263h3a2tfcda7hk454m@>,
> monika.s@ (Monika) wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking for an advice on what I can do to get a reimbursement for
> > is three days after my arrival in US.
> > The laptop was delivered in a grocery bag, wrapped merely in a couple
> > of cushioned envelopes on one side. When I unpacked it, it came out
> > that the laptop was completely trashed.
> >
> > The monitor was broken, the side panel torn off, the CDROM panel
> > broken off, and several small pieces were broken off as well. When I
> > tried to start up the laptop, my suspicions were confirmed - the
> > laptop was not working and is now completely
> > useless.
>
> The moral of the story may be not to go anywhere near Israel, at least
> with items you want to see again, intact and functional at any rate.

Binyamin Dissen wrote:
>
>
> :>>From further inspection I could tell that the laptop must have been
> :>destroyed during the inspection, before it was improperly packaged and
> :>mishandled during the flight.
>
> Fail to see how you reach that conclusion.

I suspect the packaging didn't appeared damaged, or did not appear
damaged enough to result in the damage down to the contents.