Posts by crosputni

I'm not sure what it was but I left it alone for a few hours then did an OS repair from the boot disk and it seems to be doing alright so far. I think it may have been the most recent Vista update. I just finished backing all of my work...

Ok.. so I was able to get it to the "There was an error during startup.." screen and selected Safe Mode. This time, it went to a black screen and just hung there. I haven't touched it in hopes that it's just taking ridiculously...

HELP!! My computer was running Vista and just randomly restarted itself then kept resetting over and over. One time I got it to the screen where I can select to boot to safe mode but when I selected safe mode, it started doing the...

Thanks for your help Mr Evil and Sakor. It is occasionally recognized in Windows and by BIOS. I was actually able to format it and assign it a drive number once. But the next time I started up the computer, it wasn't there again. I...

Hello. Let me start by saying I wouldn't normally do something like this to a brand new laptop considering I'm not too good with the back end of computers.. but here's the problem I have. I got a 320GB notebook hdd from Western Digital...

Thanks qhn. If I were to try with Vista or XP do you think it would work? Sorry. I'm new to this. My dad is a computer whiz and tried to walk me through this and now I can't get in touch with of him. Quote: Originally...

Ok.. So I've read through this post at least 5 times and tried everything you guys suggested but I still can't get mine to work. I have an HP Pavillion dv9310us. The primary drive is WD1200BEVS (120GB) with Vista. I want to add a 320GB...