I have a 5 year old Dell laptop, windows 7, that one day started freezing 6 seconds into booting up. The computer guys at work all seem to agree that it most likely had a bad hard drive. I replaced it with a new one and now when I boot it up I recieve...
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I have an HP laptop. It was operating on Windows 7 Home. I ordered these discs when I started having issues with it. I wiped my hard drive and installed the operating system from these discs. Unfortunately, for me, these appear to be a generic operating system. It does work, but it lacks some of the programs and look and feel of a HP laptop. If you just want a barebones WIN 7 OS, these should work. If you are looking to get back to the way your Dell looked when you first got it, then I would contact Dell Customer Service for support on getting the original recovery CDs. The support, and the discs, are not free unless you are under warranty. But, I have had good luck with them on a Dell that I have.
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Not sure, I am running Win-7 and all is fine. I know the unit works great as I have watched countless videos off my 7 year old Dell laptop with no problems. I have upgraded the old hard drive to an SSD as you ne d the speed for files coming off the disk to the unit. With the old hard drive, it sometimes stuttered but that may have been the old CPU holding it back. I am very high tech level and know the unit works great if used properly and with decent other gear set up correctly. I no longer have any PCs running XP so I can't test it for you but it is working great here on both 7 and 8.2 machines. I highly recommend the product. If you can set up a second monitor out of you Dell, then try mirrored mode with that. If that doesn't work either, then your problem is with your laptop or Windows install. If it does work, I can't say why the convertor setup is not as mine works fine... Great picture too...
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Did you replace your existing magnetic hard drive with this? I replaced a traditional hard drive on my laptop and found that it was so quiet now I easily hear the processor fan start up and go off. Could that be what you are hearing?
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I don't know why. I would hard turn off - wait a few minutes & then turn on again. All computers freeze sometimes. This one is no different.
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I was really surprised to find that the hard drive was not user serviceable.I eventually opened up the whole thing See pictures below.Opening it up was not that difficult. Just needed to be careful not to break some tiny keyboard connectors/cable.This is a good thin 14" laptop with DVD; the only complaint is this built-in hard drive thing.http://i41.tinypic.com/35hizhh.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/27yoif5.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/14l3faq.jpg
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I had to send mine back because the power key stopped working. It currently is dead due to possible hard drive failure. I don't have the heart to keep putting money into it, and the proprietary SSD business is crap.
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Honestly I was disappointed to the point that I rarely use the laptop now. I use my desktop computer for everything I do on the web, and if I have time then will just uninstall Win8 and install Win7 instead. I'm hoping that it is not a hardware issue though, as it is already 3 months since I purchased mine.
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Hi Rami. Computer works just fine. The windows 8 interface really upsets my wife who is not so computer literate and can't seem to navigate her way around the system but it boots up very quickly and no freeze issues so far. My last computer with windows 7 had the blue screen of death and it was frustrating. Best of luck!
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I was really surprised to find that the hard drive was not user serviceable. I eventually opened up the whole thing See pictures below. Opening it up was not that difficult. Just needed to be careful not to break some tiny keyboard connectors/cable. This is a good thin 14" laptop with DVD; the only complaint is this built-in hard drive thing. http://i41.tinypic.com/35hizhh.jpg http://i41.tinypic.com/27yoif5.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/14l3faq.jpg
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I can't say I have been having problems with my PC day one since I got it it freeze often and blue screen comes up I took it too three professional information technology technicians and they can't even explain why a new so call advance laptop gives all these symptoms so I am left with it which I payed plenty money for and can't use it I contacted the supplier and up to this date no reply I would a day bad customer service good luck if you choose too buy this laptop
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I have a MacBook pro 2010 and I get freezes during start up unless I unplug and replug after booting up. There were so many other types of problems I ended up returning the HD.
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The battery i bought is labeled Dell and it fits and powers the laptop up, but since i put it in the machine has been freezing up. The only way to get it going again has been to take the battery out and reboot. It could be a total coincidence, but the problem started when the battery was switched out. But, i needed a new battery to use it at all so i didnt have much choice. I know this is not perfect advice, but it is all i can offer.
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I also bought this laptop recently and am also hearing the strange hard drive noise. It's like a squeaking sound. As long as the hard drive functions well it's not an issue, but if this is a precursor to hard drive failure then I'd be worried.
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That's usually the sign of a failed or damaged hard drive. Call HP support. They might cover it.
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Yes, double check with Western Digital to see if it fits. The hard drive did come formatted and partitioned from what I recall too. It wasn't too difficult to install. The only thing I am having problem with is after 30 days or so when I booted up the computer it said that I had an illegal copy of windows and to verify and reinstall. My Dell had Vista in the beginning but I upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium. When I went to put the Windows Key in they said it was invalid. Since my Dell is only a back up PC I am ignoring the upgrade and just using the PC for internet access and other uses. Hope this helps? Yes, double check with Western Digital to see if it fits. The hard drive did come formatted and partitioned from what I recall too. It wasn't too difficult to install. The only thing I am having problem with is after 30 days or so when I booted up the computer it said that I had an illegal copy of windows and to verify and reinstall. My Dell had Vista in the beginning but I upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium. When I went to put the Windows Key in they said it was invalid. Since my Dell is only a back up PC I am ignoring the upgrade and just using the PC for internet access and other uses.... » Read More Yes, double check with Western Digital to see if it fits. The hard drive did come formatted and partitioned from what I recall too. It wasn't too difficult to install. The only thing I am having problem with is after 30 days or so when I booted up the computer it said that I had an illegal copy of windows and to verify and reinstall. My Dell had Vista in the beginning but I upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium. When I went to put the Windows Key in they said it was invalid. Since my Dell is only a back up PC I am ignoring the upgrade and just using the PC for internet access and other uses. Hope this helps? « Show Less
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Sorry to tell you, yeah it's a bad drive. These aren't official Microsoft hard drives, so sometimes they won't work. Try returning it. Mine works pretty nice, but had I known that it wasn't actually produced by Microsoft, I wouldn't have bought it.
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I'm not sure what you mean by old hard drive connections. I can tell you that Windows 7 was installed. But, I can also tell you that the computer died 5 months after I purchased it. It says "1 year warranty" but that is not true. The small print says 90-days. They claimed the description was Amazon's mistake. I complained plenty.