Recent content by Chris_961

Dear all I was given a friends laptop (A HP 15 TS G9D68UA#ABA) I had witnessed earlier today that a friends laptop was crashing repeatedly and upon booting back up, it threw up the HP Operating System Not Found error. The boot error screen did hint at something wrong with the hard drive. I...

I agree with @GhislainG If you're serious about this begin buying the stuff you'll need to set it up. I think by now We've gone through all of the solutions and performance implications.

@Patrixus The PCI card I posted earlier in this thread is not just for raid. It can be used for an ordinary SATA connection, (through the external SATA controller in the card). I simply choose it because it is ONE of the cheepest cards on Amazon right now and it has decent reviews I...

Dear all I'm going to be performing a few upgrades, to a family members computer tomorrow. I have backed up their data and I would like to format their old hard drive. The hard drive has begun to re allocate sectors, and other than the data I have already backed up, they are not looking to...

@USAFRet and @Barty1884 The reason I was asking is because this hard drive has started to re allocate sector's. So I wanted to know if defragmenting it after installing windows 10 and then deleting the unnecessary partitions, (then copying their media back to it) ... would be better or worse...

Dear all I'm going to be performing an upgrade for someone this weekend. I'm reinstalling Windows 10 on an SSD for them and we will be repurposing the old HDD as a mass storage drive for his music, pictures and movies e.c.t. Since the drive has a backup of their current media (and the old...

Thanks to everyone that left a reply. I wish I could give you all the rep point's from the solution.

@Bob125484 I was considering buying one of those core 2 duo's for this system. Do you think it will allow windows to run a little bit better? And will it allow the SSD I'm installing to work a little faster? (I already know about the data 2 bandwidth limitation) Finally will it allow for...

Hello I have a family member who has asked me to fix up his old computer It is an old hp a6010n Before you comment, suggesting that money would be better spent on buying something new(er). I'm already aware of this, and I have told him this. I'm performing this small upgrade as a stop gap...

Ok I triee the PSU out on a different board. It exhibits the same behaviour. When I looked inside again, I saw that one of the components mounted to one of the heatsinks looks loose. I will investigate further, but for now it's safe to conclude that the PSU is to blame. I think I'll Save the...