It isn't even 2 years old. Of course I only took the one year warranty that came with it, thinking it was a quality product that would last years. If anyone has any suggestions and can point me in the right direction for replacing the hard drive in my laptop, I'd appreciate it. I don't know what my limitations are or even how to break the thing open.
Thanks iawalkes for being the only person to respond and for trying to help me. It's nice to know we're not alone out here. I'm glad you were able to fix it, but yeah. That's definately not a good sign : You're hard drive is on it's way down. I would think maybe it was shook too much with vibrations while it was on causing scratches on the surface of the disk. I like newegg.
You should be able to find a replacement notebook hard drive there. You can decide what size you want and things of that nature. I would do this asap. When you get to upgrading the hard drive, make sure you post under notebooks, hardware upgrade. There'll be people there who will be able to help you with that more than I can. I've never been allowed to work on a notebook yet! You know, you're probably right. We tend to carry it from room to room while it's on trying to keep my 2 year old son away from it and watching missed episodes of "The Office" and "Heroes.
Anyway, thanks for the advice about Newegg and the Notebook forum. I'll check them out. I bought something at Newegg before but it's been years.
More power to all When you receive the New puter thats the time and probably the only time, to make a Recovery disk. I didn' tknow this but for some unknown reason I saw this in Programs and made a Recovery disk Then for months I could not get any action after trying to use disks : Reinstallatin, Resources, Dell Recovery Which F12 to the end where cllick Enter to continue, R for Recovery, F3 to quit, do all those and no action whatsoever Solution: Loaned my Printer and Scanner to my neighbor and for some unlnown reason while they were gone disconnected I tried the disks again and woo hoo they all worked.
Anticon 2 Bronze. If this works, I will hunt you down and shower you with gifts. Post Reply. Top Contributor. If none of the above solutions takes effect, you can choose to reinstall the operating system.
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Your computer will restart. A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to you computer. If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer.
If this screen appears again, follow these steps:? Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Technical Information? I have the same missing hal. I too am concerned about losing pictures and files? I have the same problem no XP discs since the machine came with them preloaded!
I TOO, am experiencing this problem. If you want to save your files, before doing anything to drastic; Turn your HD into a slave, and then after booting on a different computer you'll see your HD as a Local Disk, and then simply keep the files, you want. Meanwhile; I don't know, if you can move a hal.
So, unless I can move a hal.
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