Whats wrong with my laptop?
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Whats wrong with my laptop?
like 3 months ago i bought a dell d600 laptop for $75 i know its old but for $75 i thought what the hey, so it all worked perfectly until a friend of mine was using it while i was at the store and when i got back he said somethings wrong with it, and i asked what happened and he said "i was on the internet and then it started ticking like a clock so i turned it off" and i said ok, so i turned it on and it was ticking and it was booting up but gave me an error that says "Primary hard disk drive 0 not found" i googled the problem and i read that the drive might not be connected properly or the drive has gone bad, do any of you guys know what any other solution could be? i'll probably take it apart tomorrow, if worse comes to worse i'll just buy another hard drive i guess
let me know what you guys think the problem could be
let me know what you guys think the problem could be
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like 3 months ago i bought a dell d600 laptop for $75 i know its old but for $75 i thought what the hey, so it all worked perfectly until a friend of mine was using it while i was at the store and when i got back he said somethings wrong with it, and i asked what happened and he said "i was on the internet and then it started ticking like a clock so i turned it off" and i said ok, so i turned it on and it was ticking and it was booting up but gave me an error that says "Primary hard disk drive 0 not found" i googled the problem and i read that the drive might not be connected properly or the drive has gone bad, do any of you guys know what any other solution could be? i'll probably take it apart tomorrow, if worse comes to worse i'll just buy another hard drive i guess
let me know what you guys think the problem could be
let me know what you guys think the problem could be
160 gig should be plenty unless you are doing alot of videos
Last edited by KingRanchCoy; Dec 31, 2009 at 04:40 PM.
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when you say reprogram windows do you mean just reinstall windows right? would windows vista or windows 7 be able to be installed? or would i have to keep running windows xp?
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Yes reinstall windows, i would NOT run windows vista on that laptop it will be extremly slow, i would consider running windows 7 on it though. Windows 7 does not require alot of prcessor speed, memory etc. I would definetly go with windows 7 if you dont want xp. Only thing is you need a dvd player to install windows 7.
