How to transfer a pc over plane

[FranoM]

In 2 months I'm moving to UK from Croatia.
I was thinking about disassembling my PC and taking it as carry on. I have all the boxes that the parts came with. I was thinking about putting the graphics card and motherboard with cpu in it in the original boxes. I would also take hdd with and ram with me. Only thing i would put in luggage is the psu. The case i would leave behind because it is too big.
The problem is that my friend said if i disassemble it and carry it with me that some things would definitely get fried. Is that true? Does taking your pc apart and assembling it again hurt it? And would carrying it like that damage anything?

 

[ahnilated]

If taking apart your pc and reassembling it destroyed it then none of my pc's would ever work. That is not true at all. As long as you have anti static bags you would be fine. I don't know how/if the airline will allow you carrying on the computer parts or not though.

 

[geofelt]

Not a problem.
Pack any checked baggage carefully since bags get thrown around.
Pack what you can for carry on that will fit in the overhead compartment.
Me prepared for scrutiny at security.

 

[bambiboom]

FranoM,

My concern would be the airport security X-Ray. However, millions of people travel with laptops. having both SSD's and mechanical hard drives. If it were a problem to travel with a computer, it would be well-known.

The one problem with components is that one or more separated circuit boards might appear on scans as potentially dangerous. Airport security are a twitchy sort and err on the side of caution.

These days they might blow it up on the tarmac without opening. I had a touchy situation even in 1995. I traveled from London to New York and I had a large briefcase filled with racing bicycle components - all Aluminium, mechanical pieces purchased in England. At Heathrow, I was hustled into a room, and had to take out each piece.

I would suggest too that you consider making a system image of the system files and data files and put them on a flash drive with an access code or they might be divided onto Blu-Ray disks. But that in an antistatic bag and mail it to a secure location in the UK., using some form of secure signature mail if necessary. Then if something happens to the computer drives, lost or corrupted by airport security, you have a full backup in a separate code-protected location that can be quickly restored to the system. Airport security use ever more powerful detection devices.

I'm the nervous sort and keep two complete backups, one on an external drive that is only turned on to update the backup. With large projects, I make periodic a CD or DVD. These also allow me delete a lot of the earlier versions

Welcome to the U.K!

Cheers,

BambiBoom