-i have a sony vaio laptop with windows 7 home premium.yesterday when i tried restoring it failed.i tried again and it failed.i gave it to a sony service centre , they said that the harddisk failed to boot and i have to buy a new harddisk. Do i really have to change my harddisk?You did not mention, when it failed, how it failed and what was the error message if there any.
Most likely your hard drive is still good. If it worked a minuted before you tried to restore it, then it is still good. If you tried to restore it from the recovery partition, it is possible that the recovery partition had problem from the begin with and the service centre will not admit it.
If you are trying to boot from a Win 7 Disc, make sure your first boot device in BIOS is set to CD/DVD drive.Failing to boot and replacing the HD are two different things...ALMOST.
Did the service center try to reload the OS? If so and it wouldn't load, then the HD may need replaced. If they didn't attempt this and just suggest replacing the HD, they may be trying the easy way out. In any case it sounds as if the BOOT sector of the HD has indeed failed but given the information here it's hard to determine if all the proper steps to recover the HD have been taken. //Steve
Not always, no. If it failed try the CHKDSK as mentioned, if that comes up with no problems try to format it, if it wont format from your computer ask a friend to try format it for you, if that fails, yes you need a new one, an external harddrive will work as long as you set the boot device priority to boot from external or usb.
It depends, are you able to boot into Windows?
Try booting from a Windows CD/DVD and running "chkdsk /f" from the command console.
first try using a external hd or usb drive of ur friend
if it helps then go buy it
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2011年8月4日星期四
Few questions regarding new Acer Laptop?
-Hi!
I just got a new acer laptop. I removed most of the unneeded software like games, etc. Now I have some issues with it I can't resolve myself.
1. I was wondering why it had one big hard disk, I'm used to having two disks, one C: and one D:
Is that bad, since I plan on playing games and don't feel comfortable installing 14 gigs or more game on the same drive as Windows, or more than 150 GB of music...
2. It is supposed to have 750 GB hard, yet I see 685 GB written on the single C: drive.
3. As far as I know it has both Nvidia and Intel graphics card. Dxdiag says Intel HD, is there any way to force the laptop to use the nvidia one? Or will my games use the Nvidia one without me touching anything?
Laptop is Acer Aspire 5745G
Intel Core i5-460m 2.53 ghz
Nvidia GeForce GT 420m 2gb
4 RAM, 750 GB HDDYou don't seem to have a recovery partition, which seems a little odd, but it's no big deal. Use the included software to create recovery disks or a system image in the event of a crash. See the Backup and Restore applet in Control Panel. Get an external drive for backups if your data is important to you.
The difference in size is a result of the way GB are calculated. The makers of HDs use decimal, and computers use binary. You have the right size.
It's my understanding these laptops will switch to the proper video configuration automatically.You might get ride of lot of the information that you have done already but there is still lots of stuff on there that you don't want to mess with if you delete a wrong file you can mess up your laptop really they don't take off as much as you think my computer is an Acer. . The c: drive is one of the drivers for like the stuff you have in you disk drive that's why the C: drive is up there the D: drive is where lot of the information is and you don't want to mess with that you can add and remove drives but i recommend you not to just in-case both drives might have some impotent information. . So watch out what you might be getting read of. . email me at scottielucas15@hotmail.com and tell me some of the issues and i might be able to help you. . I like working with computers. . Helped many of people
I just got a new acer laptop. I removed most of the unneeded software like games, etc. Now I have some issues with it I can't resolve myself.
1. I was wondering why it had one big hard disk, I'm used to having two disks, one C: and one D:
Is that bad, since I plan on playing games and don't feel comfortable installing 14 gigs or more game on the same drive as Windows, or more than 150 GB of music...
2. It is supposed to have 750 GB hard, yet I see 685 GB written on the single C: drive.
3. As far as I know it has both Nvidia and Intel graphics card. Dxdiag says Intel HD, is there any way to force the laptop to use the nvidia one? Or will my games use the Nvidia one without me touching anything?
Laptop is Acer Aspire 5745G
Intel Core i5-460m 2.53 ghz
Nvidia GeForce GT 420m 2gb
4 RAM, 750 GB HDDYou don't seem to have a recovery partition, which seems a little odd, but it's no big deal. Use the included software to create recovery disks or a system image in the event of a crash. See the Backup and Restore applet in Control Panel. Get an external drive for backups if your data is important to you.
The difference in size is a result of the way GB are calculated. The makers of HDs use decimal, and computers use binary. You have the right size.
It's my understanding these laptops will switch to the proper video configuration automatically.You might get ride of lot of the information that you have done already but there is still lots of stuff on there that you don't want to mess with if you delete a wrong file you can mess up your laptop really they don't take off as much as you think my computer is an Acer. . The c: drive is one of the drivers for like the stuff you have in you disk drive that's why the C: drive is up there the D: drive is where lot of the information is and you don't want to mess with that you can add and remove drives but i recommend you not to just in-case both drives might have some impotent information. . So watch out what you might be getting read of. . email me at scottielucas15@hotmail.com and tell me some of the issues and i might be able to help you. . I like working with computers. . Helped many of people
Asus help........!!!?
-Can anyone tell me the best Asus motherboard i can get for or below 4000 Inr...........
It shud have a AM3 socket(AMD Athlon II X2 255 Dual Core)
It should have a HDmi port
And UsB 3.0 port if avalible
And shuld support DDR3 Ram..
Tanx...
It shud have a AM3 socket(AMD Athlon II X2 255 Dual Core)
It should have a HDmi port
And UsB 3.0 port if avalible
And shuld support DDR3 Ram..
Tanx...
Can I get my work back?
-I was working on something for school in WordPad for about an hour and I was about to save when I got the dreaded blue screen of death. The computer re-started and I lost my work. Is there any way to get my work back?No, if it wasn't saved then it was just in RAM which was cleared as soon as it lost power.
When working on anything save often and when you're finished make a backup of the file.Yes you can, you'll need a time machine though.
time machine, or retype.
When working on anything save often and when you're finished make a backup of the file.Yes you can, you'll need a time machine though.
time machine, or retype.
Where to download Gigabyte S-series motherboard drivers?
-Hi
I have Gigabyte motherboard of S-series and the chipset is "intel 945"
I don't know the socket type to search it from the website itself..
Can you please tell me which socket does suit for this series of motherboards so that i can search in the website..
thank youfirst download a chipset identifier called speccy install it, run it. this will give every information about your pc main hardware name version and type. ok now look for motherboard on the right side list you will see the name and model of that motherboard so for instance look at screen shot below
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/3492/鈥?/a>
as you can see the name of the motherboard is highlighted and the model number at the end. now that you know the name and model number of your motherboard go the link below and enter that same information you see on speccy. if you cannot see your motherboard information please send me your specs from speccy go to file and then click on save as text file and save as speccy file.
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-download鈥?/a>
you can reach me at fpresiado@live.com if you need further questions.
I have Gigabyte motherboard of S-series and the chipset is "intel 945"
I don't know the socket type to search it from the website itself..
Can you please tell me which socket does suit for this series of motherboards so that i can search in the website..
thank youfirst download a chipset identifier called speccy install it, run it. this will give every information about your pc main hardware name version and type. ok now look for motherboard on the right side list you will see the name and model of that motherboard so for instance look at screen shot below
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/3492/鈥?/a>
as you can see the name of the motherboard is highlighted and the model number at the end. now that you know the name and model number of your motherboard go the link below and enter that same information you see on speccy. if you cannot see your motherboard information please send me your specs from speccy go to file and then click on save as text file and save as speccy file.
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-download鈥?/a>
you can reach me at fpresiado@live.com if you need further questions.
Help macbook pro flashing question mar folder on startup?
-Hey guys i have a problem, i was messing around with my mac to try and install os x onto my netbook and during the process i might have tweaked with the system a little bit, now whenever i start it up it always shows a flashing question mark. I reinstalled os x and reset the pram but no luck. I also ran the disk utility repair thingy but it didn't help. I think it has to do with the start up options, like i think i might have set it to start up from a usb or something, how can i fix this?Even if you set OSX to boot from USB, it should look elsewhere (like on your hard drive) if it doesn't find a bootable system there.
Troubleshooting tips for addressing this problem are covered here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
In brief, the steps in increasing order of pain-in-the-xxx are:
1. Disconnect all peripheral devices, if any, and try again.
2. Boot in Safe Mode by restarting with the Shift key held down. This resets some things. Then restart again and see if all is well.
3. If not, reset the PRAM by restarting with the Option, Apple, P, and R keys all held down. (I know you tried this already.)
4. If that doesn't help, boot from your OSX installation or system restore disk by inserting the disk in your DVD drive and restarting with the C key held down. Then, run Disk Utility to repair the hard drive and then repair permissions. (Here, too, I see you say you tried this, but you have to boot from your DVD drive to repair the drive.)
5. If that doesn't help, re-install OSX. You can do this without losing your apps, files, or settings by doing an "archive and install." You'll need to run Software Update afterward, though, to get back to the most recent version of OSX.
Troubleshooting tips for addressing this problem are covered here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
In brief, the steps in increasing order of pain-in-the-xxx are:
1. Disconnect all peripheral devices, if any, and try again.
2. Boot in Safe Mode by restarting with the Shift key held down. This resets some things. Then restart again and see if all is well.
3. If not, reset the PRAM by restarting with the Option, Apple, P, and R keys all held down. (I know you tried this already.)
4. If that doesn't help, boot from your OSX installation or system restore disk by inserting the disk in your DVD drive and restarting with the C key held down. Then, run Disk Utility to repair the hard drive and then repair permissions. (Here, too, I see you say you tried this, but you have to boot from your DVD drive to repair the drive.)
5. If that doesn't help, re-install OSX. You can do this without losing your apps, files, or settings by doing an "archive and install." You'll need to run Software Update afterward, though, to get back to the most recent version of OSX.
Processor speed vs. number of processors?
-I am looking to get a laptop very soon and one of the most important things to me is how fast it runs. Laptop A has the Phenom II Dual-Core and runs at 3.0 GHz. Laptop B has the Phenom II Quad-Core but runs at 2.2 GHz. Which one would be the better option?That depends on the software that you're running. Most software only runs on one or two processor threads, in this situation the dual core processor with a higher clock speed will perform the best. Tasks such as video encoding or ray tracing that can use all of the processor cores will run better on the quad core with the lower clock speed.If you enjoy running quite a number of programs while you do other things, then i suggest you go quad core. If not, then go dual core.
So quad really really helps if you're going to be doing a lot of multitasking, RAM helps too, and quad core is also a good investment into the future since programs are catching up.
If you can get a quad core, then get it.
So quad really really helps if you're going to be doing a lot of multitasking, RAM helps too, and quad core is also a good investment into the future since programs are catching up.
If you can get a quad core, then get it.
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