Omega Owners Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Please play nicely.  No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Laptop hard drive  (Read 717 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

redelitev6

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • 0
  • Posts: 2370
    • View Profile
Laptop hard drive
« on: 05 June 2013, 18:15:39 »
Are they plug and play or do you need to format anything? the daughters lappy has got a "hard disc error" message on screen, I've made the fatal mistake of taking it to the muppets in PC world where they gave me the usual spiel about send it off- £50 now and diagnose fault, cost of this and that ,  I can imagine it mounting up nicely. Is it a hard job changing a drive?
Logged

dbug

  • Omega Queen
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Northants
  • Posts: 14279
  • Dont knock Linux!
    • Jaguar XJ 5.0V8 Portfolio
    • View Profile
    • Dbug IT Services
Re: Laptop hard drive
« Reply #1 on: 05 June 2013, 18:18:47 »
Not plug and play, need formatting.  You have that option in the Windows install - assuming you'll be installing Windoz ;)
Logged
1972 Ferrari Dino, 1967 Triumph TR4A, Mondeo 2.0TDCi Estate, Jaguar XJ 5.0V8 Portfolio

TheBoy

  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Brackley, Northants
  • Posts: 107026
  • I Like Lockdown
    • Whatever Starts
    • View Profile
Re: Laptop hard drive
« Reply #2 on: 05 June 2013, 21:48:30 »
As its a laptop, its likely its the system drive as dbug implies. That means it needs Windows reinstall.

The fact you are asking this Q answers one of dbug's implications, as its fair to say that "alternatives to Windows" are probably unsuitable.
Logged
Grumpy old man

Plomien

  • Omega Baron
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Swansea
  • Posts: 2349
  • Rescue the beer and drink the maiden
    • Landrover Freelander TD4
    • View Profile
Re: Laptop hard drive
« Reply #3 on: 05 June 2013, 22:02:49 »
You can buy a replacement HDD for the laptop for the £50, depending on what has caused the failure its unplug and put new one in, then install windows.
If you were down my neck of the woods I would happily sort it for you, if you know someone who has a bit of PC knowledge then its and easy repair :)
Logged
No more Omega but still hangs around

Vamps

  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Bishop Middleham, Co Durham.
  • Posts: 24708
  • Flying Tonight, so Be Prepared.
    • Mig 2.6CDX and 2.2 Honda
    • View Profile
Re: Laptop hard drive
« Reply #4 on: 05 June 2013, 22:08:36 »
I had what I thought was HD failure, even the IT guy from work could not fix it, ended up with a new lap top...... ::) ::)
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.025 seconds with 17 queries.