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New laptop :D - Dark Samurai - 14-11-2017
Gotmy new laptop today guys.
Really really nice actually, its an Advent (i know how flimsy and not strong enough built they used to be) but this feels like a strong, sturdy laptop, its a Roma 2000, went into PC WORLD 350.00 for a 160 HDD, or 330.00 for a 320gb HDD, 20 pound less for a bigger harddrive, its crazy isn't it? 3GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium. It really is a good laptop.
New laptop :D - Sparkystav - 14-11-2017
sounds good mate,
got the missus a little dell netbook for christmas she seems to like it.
and bought myself a portable 320gb HDD as my 160 ones on its last legs and sometimes refuses to load.
gonna copy everything across then format see if that helps. if it does can use is a hdd for the new blu-ray player!
New laptop :D - Dark Samurai - 14-11-2017
Yeah my brother has a mac and a little toshiba netbook, and my mum has a little asus netbook, both good, serve their purpose and are good because my brother is student and is easy for transporting also. But i would prefer a bigger laptop as it has better speakers, and its bigger as i like bigger laptops as more room to move about etc.
But i have a 120gb external harddrive, but my old laptop died and now i cant get anything off my old laptop onto this new one, which is the biggest pain in the neck in the world.
New laptop :D - steviewevie - 14-11-2017
Oli But i have a 120gb external harddrive, but my old laptop died and now i cant get anything off my old laptop onto this new one, which is the biggest pain in the neck in the world.
What happened to the old laptop ? If it's old hard drive is still working, then you should be able to remove it and install it in an external USB housing (which you can get from Maplin etc, just make sure you get the right sort, e.g. IDE, SATA etc) and then connect it via USB to the new one to transfer your files. Then you can still use that old drive as some handy portable storage.
New laptop :D - Dark Samurai - 14-11-2017
It was a compaq presario c500ea, loaded up, got to vista loading screen then turned off, turned itself back on again and stayed at the intel screen.
But cheers for that mate, i know they do leads to plug into hard drives, but ill ave a look in maplins and online. cheers for that
New laptop :D - steviewevie - 15-11-2017
Oli It was a compaq presario c500ea, loaded up, got to vista loading screen then turned off, turned itself back on again and stayed at the intel screen.
But cheers for that mate, i know they do leads to plug into hard drives, but ill ave a look in maplins and online. cheers for that
ok, doesn't sound like a hard drive failure to me. For enclosures, I imagine it'll be a 2.5" drive being in a laptop, you probably need something like this (they do other ones too).
New laptop :D - Dark Samurai - 15-11-2017
cheers mate, just dont want to spend that money.
New laptop :D - Lexusboy - 15-11-2017
Good news you got your laptop Oli.
Funny how we can not be without our laptops and phones these days...
New laptop :D - Dark Samurai - 15-11-2017
Yeah mate, cant live without my laptop. Ever.
I had nothing to do when my laptop died a few days ago.
It really is weird.