Recent content by beethof

I agree with the bad idea on trying to fix a hard drive with noises. If not with noises I did do a install and a reinstall on a damaged hard drive. But since it's making noises and you didn't really touch it well I would agree that the hard drive is on his last leg. If it wasn't the noise...

With all my trial and errors with this reinstall, another problem arose from the experiments. Power button not turning on the laptop. It's really looking like the quick fix is to replace motherboard in another laptop like getting a new one. Never liked win 8.1 anyways and the latest win 10 is...

Got it, the SSD looks like just one plugged hard drive, as for the motherboard whatever originally that came with the laptop product number F9h60UA s/n cnd4061glk is there. I created an installation media from the Microsoft website stating Windows 8.1 downloaded into a USB thumb drive. I also...

reinstalling windows 8 with error in windows setup. no drives are showing up to pick