My Computer Crashed

[stickem]

quit looking at porn. just playing man. isn't that hard to swap a hdd. surprised the recovery disc didn't work for you.

[MrPopo]

Frankly, I can't understand how you can screw up installing a hard drive. The connectors to it are distinctly shaped and it's pretty clear what plugs into what.

If you can hook up a game console, you can put together a computer.

This. You don't even need to worry about static unless you're actually Electro.

[Hobie-wan]

I'm still trying to figure out why a factory wipe and restore wasn't done with the disc if doing a Windows system restore back a week or two didn't clean up the mess.

[noiseredux]

did you ask the guy at Best Buy if this one is upgradeable?

[dsheinem]

tell me the story again about how a virus broke the hardware beyond repair...

[Frag Mortuus]

Dude, I promise you that a virus did not damage your hardware. Next time, post on here what your problem is and one of us computer savvy people will be glad to help.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you are happy with your new machine, but we could have saved you a lot of money.

[BurningDoom]

I'm still trying to figure out why a factory wipe and restore wasn't done with the disc if doing a Windows system restore back a week or two didn't clean up the mess.

Because it didn't come with a restore disc. And a windows system restore worked for about 2 minutes before the hard-drive failed again.

[BurningDoom]

I don't know how I can make it clearer. I'm not a computer geek. You guys can just keep beating me over the head about how dumb I am for not knowing how to fix a computer if it makes you feel better, though. I only know the simplest of things like a system restore, or installing new RAM.

[stickem]

I'm still trying to figure out why a factory wipe and restore wasn't done with the disc if doing a Windows system restore back a week or two didn't clean up the mess.

Because it didn't come with a restore disc. And a windows system restore worked for about 2 minutes before the hard-drive failed again.

gots to order those. prolly around 35 bucks.
i doubt your hdd failed though. how old was the computer?

[BurningDoom]

I'm still trying to figure out why a factory wipe and restore wasn't done with the disc if doing a Windows system restore back a week or two didn't clean up the mess.

Because it didn't come with a restore disc. And a windows system restore worked for about 2 minutes before the hard-drive failed again.

gots to order those. prolly around 35 bucks.
i doubt your hdd failed though. how old was the computer?

Less than a year, which is why I was so frustrated.

The system restore did work, for about 2 minutes. Then it all started crashing again. Icons and programs completely disappearing. Not enough resources to launch the control panel even, the 2nd time around. Which is what led me to believe the hard drive was hurt.