Seems to have done the job. I was checking the folder properties to try do it before making the post but couldn't find the location tab then,...
Hi guys, I just reinstalled Windows on my laptop, but done it using a partition of 16gb for the operating system, and then the rest of the...
Done that a few times, and it didn't bring up any errors for me, so I'll take a punt and ghost it over. Cheers guys.
Is there a method to check for any damaged data? Will get hold of that when I can, cheers
It's definitely the hard drive, had a listen this morning, it sounded bad enough when starting up, have ordered a new hard drive. I assume that...
Also, had a blue screen on the 30th of May, have used Blue Screen Viewer to see it. Have updated the Sound Card drivers, but I don't think this...
Everything is backed up. Spoke to HP/PC World support and they said it could be a faulty SATA bus? I've been trying to find a motherboard...
Hi guys, Recently my Mums PC has been getting a clicking noise, quite often when she first starts it up in the morning. It will start clicking...
Resolved that part of the issue. When the laptop was dropped, it was dropped onto the side that holds the disc drive, and subsequently that was...
I have a CD drive that goes into the laptop from the same model, so will try that and see if it works with it.
Yes, it does. Since making that post, I've had a message come up. Winload.exe or something is either missing or corrupt? It advises using a disc...
A friend of mine recently dropped their laptop. When they first dropped it, it worked fine, windows loaded etc, however, they went back to it 20...
I'll see if I can find a cheap enough repair centre, as the warranty was only a year long and the laptops about four years older now, and neither...
Unfortunately, I won't be able to do anything on the laptop as long as this black screen persists. It comes as soon as I turn on the laptop. The...
BIOS are all at their defaults, other than when I was setting it to boot from USB I didn't change BIOS settings. After my attempts of booting...
Trying to find that out now, I think I have a copy of Spinrite somewhere which I'll use if I can find it.
Would it deffinately be a hard drive failure when the access light flashes? Once it gets to the black screen after "Windows is loading" it stops,...
Not sure, I can't remember when it was purchased. I'm going to try a different Linux distro, if it doesn't load the live CD for it properly I'll...
I done that not long after I posted this thread. I downloaded Ubuntu live and followed instructions on booting it via a USB, but to no prevail....
Hi all, My parents laptop recently refused to startup so they asked me to take a look at it. The system will turn on, however, on the vista...
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