Laptop Hard Drive

Alan B'Stard

Alan B'Stard

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SATA Laptop Hard Drive wanted, mine is due to die any day as my laptop seems fond of telling me.

Any size.
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
Nothing used in stock i'm affraid, but personally I'd highly recommend buying a new one anyway.... you could otherwise be in the same position again a few months or even weeks down the line.
 
Darren

Darren

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SSD drives rock i have a 250GB Samsung SDD in my pc and it boots in under 20 seconds and when i say boots i mean it is ready to use.
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
I'm thinking of getting the fastest SSD I can afford, rather than the biggest. As long as I have around 80GB for my OS and programs, I can sell myself a 512GB Livedrive Briefcase which will add me an "L" drive to store files on in the cloud.
 
age'd parent

age'd parent

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I got a 60 GB SSD for my desk top, stuck windows 7 on it and moved all the rest over to a spinner, It seems to be running nicely at 30gb in use and 30 free all the time.
I'm quite pleased with it but would have liked to have XP on it instead but that's not possible with a SSD
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
I built a PC for a mate a few weeks ago, the windows 7 logo only gets halfway together before it hits the desktop. IIRC it was 23 seconds from a cold boot to the desktop fully loaded, I could have trimmed it down more using the fast boot options in the bios but I don't like using them til I know the system is rock solid.
 
Darren

Darren

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tek-monkey said:
I built a PC for a mate a few weeks ago, the windows 7 logo only gets halfway together before it hits the desktop. IIRC it was 23 seconds from a cold boot to the desktop fully loaded, I could have trimmed it down more using the fast boot options in the bios but I don't like using them til I know the system is rock solid.
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How do you change the fast boot options in the bio i have a gigabyte EX58-UD4P MOBO
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Not used that bios, but in mine there were options on how to boot. It mentioned normal boot and after full power off IIRC, but I like to be able to get into the bios should I need and it seemed to skip past all that bit before my monitor turned on!
 
Darren

Darren

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Doesn't look like i have those options oh well my next mobo is going to be a Asrock they have really started to produce some quality boards at a great price.
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
I'm very weary of BIOS features like fast booting and automatic overclocking. One I recently ordered in for a customer had the auto-overclock enabled and then suddenly wouldnt boot or even give a video output to allow the bios to be altered. I started to panic but thankfully a CMOS battery pull did the trick.

A BIOS fast boot setting can make 10 or 20 seconds difference. Now, I'm quite an impatient person at the best of times - but at the risk of some major problem causing boot failure... I think I'll give it a miss ;)
 
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