My notebook (small laptop - think thats what they're called) decided to f about last night. It kept popping critical error messages up the switched itself off. I turned it back on and some windows recovery thing is open and saying there were critical errors, I clicked the fix button and it said these could not be fixed. I take it a my usual remedies of either a lump hammer or GT85 don't work too well on computer equipment.
So, has my hard drive died, was it a virus, and where's the best place to get it fixed (if economically worthwhile)? Also someone said these had solid memory (?) rather than a disc hard drive, should I be looking for a diferent type of HDD than say a full size laptop?
Any advice would help although as I can't get on line outside of work now I'll have to read it tomorrow!
Ta 😀
That would be solid state and it does sound like it's died, best bet is to run a diagnostic of some sort to confitm. If the capacity of the drive is very small it is probably mini pci-e and there won't be room to fit a regular 2.5" hard drive.
If you're anywhere near Newport S Wales I could sort this for you.
If you have access to the net. Download the mint.iso and install it on a USB:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/create-a-linux-mint-8-usb-flash-drive-from-cd/#more-3812
If you can boot from the USB you can then install Linux Mint instead of that nasty windows that seems to have died.
Only if you're a glutton for punishment, rich 😉
Every linux install that I've seen, recommended by geeks as it's supposedly great, never is once you actually use it and seems to be followed by 'oh well, apart from that' and 'and that' and 'oh and that too' then 'but it's the makers' faults - they should do drivers' and so on.
Fine if you're a techy and can usually fix it (often very easily) but crap IMO for non-techies in the real world.
To be fair alot of Linux Distos are like that. Mint is quite a bit better as it comes pre loaded with alot of codex's and drivers you may need.
Still better than Windows 🙂
Cheers for the advice, might try the linux thing to see if I can retrieve any of my files (would that work?). Think my tax return was on it 😯
Unfortunately I'm in Manchester so a bit far to Newport!
MacBook Air.
Bought one last Nov and it is simply brilliant.
There are some Windows apps that I have to use for work, so I run VMWare with Windows 7, Outlook, Word, Excel etc all that stuff.
It runs Windows better than Windows itself. My previous Dell, IBM etc laptops would often hang, crash, lock up, require rebooting etc. Not the MacBook.
I primarily got the notebook because my wifi had gone on my expensive laptop and I just wanted something to go online. Think I paid £170 for it new. MacBooks sound expensive but I'll have a look...
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HTH.
Sorry, it's Friday. 🙂