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palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1757 |
My Laptop HDD went kaput so I bought a new SSD. Grogster did this a little while back. My problem is I have mounted the drive and I have a windows installation disk but how do I format the drive. The installation starts and loads some files but then throws an error. "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" |
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KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1336 |
Wondering what the error message said? From memory the install disk will either format the disk or ask you how you want it initialised / formatted as far as partitions and or sizes. Mike It's all too hard. Mike. |
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palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1757 |
Yes I thought the installation disk would take care of it, I will check on the error again and see if I can research it on the web. "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2861 |
Hi Paul, I was able to access this thread by clicking on the DATE field.. Which windows version? AFAIK they all will format the drive for you Kind Regards, Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1757 |
when I originally got the message (BSOD 0x0000007B ) I thought it must be a faulty drive so I bought a new SSD to replage the old HDD. But still get the message so now think it must be a different fault. "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2861 |
Paul, Are you sure your laptop HDD is faulty then? Maybe your motherboard is kaputski? Try the HDD (old) in a USB caddy and plug it into your PC and see if it works ok. Mind you the HDD may have killed your laptop or vice-versa. If you want I am always happy to try to recover the data off your drive for you.. PM if interested. Kind Regards, Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1757 |
Thanks Mick but all files were backed up. "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" |
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