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• I have an Acer Aspire One Netbook. (No DVD player). From the start on the hard drive, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor.

  I have an Acer Aspire One Netbook.  (No DVD player).  From the start on the hard drive, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor.  The cursor does not type.  For me, maybe I need to reinstall windows 7 and startup tasks are corrupt.  I have my product key genuine for the computer, but no way to get to windows.  How to restore windows on a netbook that won't start?

  original title: Netbook Windows 7 problem

  New computers coming often pre-installed with Windows 7 have what is called a recovery partition. This is used to reinstall an operating system in the case of a system failure. To access it, you need to start when you start your computer by pressing a function key. This can be either F1, F2, F9, F10, F11, F12 key DEL or tab. See the manual that came with your PC for instructions on how to reinstall Windows.

  If your recovery partition is not available or damaged, you must contact the manufacturer of your computer, and request that a defined recovery disk you can use to reinstall Windows 7. They could practice a small shipping and handling.

  Borrow a 32 bit Genuine Windows 7 friends DVD disc if you know someone who has one.

  Make an image of the DVD, you can use a program like ISO Recorder to do.
  http://alexfeinman.com/

  If you don't have a Windows 7 DVD to borrow, try to upload a picture:

  32 bit
  http://MSFT-DNL.digitalrivercontent.NET/msvista/pub/X15-65732/X15-65732.ISO

  You change the content of the. ISO file and delete the ei.cfg file. After having edited burn it to a blank DVD disc or put it on a USB key. Startup, it will reveal all editions of Windows 7, select the Starter edition. More information in the following article on how to change the file ei.cfg

  Utility delete EI.cfg allows you to use a product key
  http://Lifehacker.com/#%215438005/eicfg-removal-utility-lets-you-use-any-product-key-with-your-Windows-7-disc

  You can create a bootable USB stick with the following:
  Download Windows 7 USB/DVD tool
  http://store.Microsoft.com/help/ISO-tool

  Skip entering your product key Windows 7 and complete the installation.

  When you reach the desktop, click Start, right-click on computer

  Click on properties

  Scroll down to the Windows Activation

  Click the link x days before activation.

  Click on the link that says: "show me other ways to activate.

  Enter the product key (this is the key of Windows 7 Starter, which would be located on the COA sticker at the bottom of your laptop)

  Click next

  Select the Activation of the phone

  Click Next when you enter your key page

  Select your country

  Click Next, call the number listed

  Be sure to explain your situation to the Appeals Officer.

  They will give a confirmation ID, enter it

  Click next to complete the activation.

  Once activation is complete, enjoy yourself, make a backup of your installation of Windows 7 Starter please? You will need to do this an external hard drive, but its worth it. Because if your installation is messed up, all you have to do is to restore from a backup.

  http://www.notebooks.com/2009/10/24/how-to-backup-your-installation-of-Windows-7/

  Once the backup is complete, you can do an upgrade to Windows 7 Professional by using the product key that you have, if it's a full key, Windows 7 Professional Anytime Upgrade retail or upgrade license key.

  Click Start, type Anytime Upgrade, follow the on-screen Wizard, enter the key of Windows 7 Professional on demand, click Next and restart your computer when you are prompted. Less than 10 minutes, you should be upgraded to Windows 7 Professional and your files and settings retained.

  Reactivate the installation, you may also do it by phone:
  Activate Windows 7 manually:
  1. click on start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4

  2. press enter on your keyboard

  3. Select your country.
  4. Select the telephone activation option and brace yourself for a real person.

• good choice of HARD drive for x120e 0596 HELP!

  Hello

  could you guys help me in this.

  I am currently looking for an internal HDD specs as 320 GB 7200 RPM to replace my current/old as the storage hardware internal main.

  I have search in the web of lenovo I find the following 4 parts for sale at this link

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-4TNU4J

  marketing of 43N3411, A 0, 33986, 0 numbers has 65635, 0A 65636 (but none of them seems to be compatible to my x120e)

  None of them will work and will work in mine?

  According to another link within lenovo recommends only some of them (pls see below for the link and those that match) for me, but they are not for sale at lenovo.com but available to 200 usd as well as IBM parts web shop.

  FRU no.s 04W1454, 04W1458, 04W1460, 04W1462 (you can't find no.s marketing for them)
  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.page?docid=PD008454

  where can I find these 4 at a reasonable price? I need a real good.

  These are all hard drives barrels, I spoke so far.

  My next q is how worse nudes are compared with barrels hard drives?

  will be one a naked work of me and my x120e? What is the problem with them anyway?

  Thank you

  Hello

  The X120e should work fine with a 2.5 "SATA hard drive or SSD drive 9.5 mm (or less) of height.

  From what I remember, internal SATA connector of the X120e works at speeds of SATA-II (3.0Gbps), but you can install a SATA-III (6.0Gbps) drive more quickly and simply the unit will operate at the slower speed.  In addition, the internal hard drive is installed in a metal basket with four small screws Phillips (points) and has rubber bumpers.  Remove the rubber dampers (they are detached by hand without tools), unscrew the old drive from the caddy, install the new drive in the caddy, screw, place the bumper in and then install the new drive in the X120e.

  With the hardware Maintenance Manual at hand, it should take you less than 10 minutes to complete the hard drive swap.

  Kind regards

  Aryeh Goretsky

• Choice of HARD drive

  I bought an i7-970

  on computer. To reduce the cost for now I use the old hdd belonging:

  
  HD Tune: ST3160811AS Benchmark

  Minimum transfer rate: 36.2 MB/s
  Transfer rate maximum: 75.7 MB/sec
  Average transfer rate: 62.0 MB/sec
  Access time: 17.1 ms
  Gust speed: 97.1 MB/s
  CPU usage:-1.0%

  HD Tune: ST3160811AS Benchmark

  Minimum transfer rate: 35.7 MB/s
  Transfer rate maximum: 74.8 MB/sec
  Average transfer rate: 61.5 Mbps
  Access time: 17.3 ms
  Gust speed: 97.0 MB/sec
  CPU usage:-1.0%

  HD Tune: WDC WD800JD-00LSA5 Benchmark

  Minimum transfer rate: 24.7 MB/sec
  Transfer rate maximum: 58.2 MB/s
  Average transfer rate: 48.5 MB/s
  Access time: 14.5 ms
  Gust speed: 131.7 MB/s
  CPU usage:-1.0%

  I would like to know which hard drive is the least worth the OS disc & program?

  Note: I think to change the hard disk a few months: fist priority must be for which I'll choose WD Velociraptor 150 GB OS drive & program.

  What hard drive could scarth and project / media be?

  Thank you

  N. Bauland

  For now, it's not really important. All your drives are quite slow for todays standards and your current solution is temporary anyway. When you get a Velociraptor for a startup disk, you will need to do a fresh install anyway. With the i7-970 all your current disks will be the main bottleneck in terms of speed and performance. Given the results from HDTach, I would choose a Seagate for OS & programs at the moment.

  It is with hindsight and does not help you, but maybe it will help others. Had you gone for an i7-920, which start with a lower clock speed, you could have gotten a more balanced system using the savings on the CPU for disks more and faster and make your editing the experience more enjoyable.

  To see where this new system now is in terms of performance with your old records, run the http://ppbm4.com reference and transmit results to Bill, then repeat until you have the new discs and see what it does to your performance.

• Help the new choice of hard drive

  I want to add another hard drive but don't know what to get. No matter what ATA to choose? (100 150 or 300). I'll get my memory in 6400 DDR2 at 800 mhz and eventually upgrade my processor. Like to go to a Quad core or even the slightest line QX. Any advice would be appreciated.

  
  

• Satellite Pro M70 - what HARD drive can you recommend?

  I have Satellite Pro M70 and I have a 60GB HDD that I see what it s SATA 8 MB of buffer memory. The processor it s 1.73 GHz. I see that there is the Samsung typical 160 GB and the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 160 GB at the same price, which is better?

  And for only $ 11 more there's a Scorpio blue Western digital 320 with even 8 MB buffer than other 2. But I don t think so 320, that's a lot for Satellite Pro M70, and I have an external drive 2.5 "250 GB, data with this is not problem.

  What the best solution for this laptop? I don t want to burn now the phone LOL.

  Thank you

  Hello

  If your laptop is already equipped with SATA interface, you can use each HDD with SATA1 or SATA2 port on the new SATA interface there is no limit on the old standard IDE

  It s your choice what HARD drive you buy because I put t know your needs, but in my opinion it makes no difference which manufacturing you buy the HARD drive. All hard drives are similar and there is no significant difference (performance).
  I made good experiences with Western Digital and Hitachi hard drives.

  By the way: you can buy a HARD drive with 7200 rpm or 5400.rpm. Latter is faster but requires more power. In my opinion, this is useful if you often work with large files.

• My data hard drive is about to die, or it is related to a memory problem?

  My windows 7 x 64 operational system joined as well as all my applications is installed in an ssd and there is a hard drive to store data. My system is as follows:

  Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R

  MEMORY: KINGSTON KHX1600C9D3K3/12GX DDR3 12GB (3X4GB) PC12800 1600 MHZ HYPERX GENESIS TRIPLE CHANNEL KIT

  CPU: Intel Core i7 930 (s1366, 2.80 GHz)

  PSU: Enermax MODU87 + 700W 80 + gold PSU EMG700AWT

  HARD drive: Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB HDD (64 MB of Cache, 7200 RPM, Sata III)

  SATAIII SSD : SSD Samsung 840 PRO Series 265 GB (model MZ-7PD256)

  I rarely have the problem which is depicted in the icons following (I speak for hard drive data storage):

  No preview of the photo, but I can see a specific image when I double click on it

  

  

  records are missing

  

  After this problem, I went to check if the same thing was happening in the icons in the primary system ssd. Therefore, I went to start--> pictures--> sample photos and I could see a glimpse of the images.

  

  I was also able to move through each folder I wanted in the ssd. Then I double clicked on 'computer' icon and the following happened.

  

  I was able to close the window without any problem. I think that it is a hard drive problem, but could also be a memory problem. What is your opinion on that? Another weird thing that happens, is the loading time on a cold start the msconfig.exe file. Sometimes the file loads instantly and other times it takes several seconds (7-10) to load on the screen. If it is not a cold start, then the file always loads instantly. The same thing happens also with the Task Scheduler. It seems very strange to me. Please note that Superfetch, Prefetch, Defrag, Windows backup and indexing are disabled.

  Finally, I found the solution to my problem. When I got a memory low message (12 GB of installed RAM memory) I couldn't believe my eyes.

  

  I immediately opened the resource monitor, went to the memory tab and I just saw the dllhost.exe file has consume all memory. I thought that this file was infected and I checked both versions of them (x 64 & x 86) with virustotal, but it wasn't the issue. When I read that this file system is loaded to restore media files in thumbnail view in windows Explorer, I remembered that I had a defective mp4 file that could not be opened. I knew I had to do. I had to delete this file. The problem is that while you try to remove a defective media file, the dllhost.exe file tries to make it, so you are not able to delete until the end of dllhost.exe through process Explorer process.

  Conclusion: When you see a media file that it is not rendered in the thumbnail, view then this file is probably defective and the dllhost.exe goes to an infinite loop, while he tries to make this file, until it consumes all your RAM memory!

• Inspiron 620 - adding a second hard drive (UK)

  Hello

  I would like to add a second hard drive on this machine (purchased in 2012). There is a free slot in the drive Bay and the spare mounting rails, there is a connector not used on the power cable (P5), so it's just a SATA data additional connection which is missing.

  So should I buy a cable to plug into an outlet of spare SATA on the motherboard (I think there are 4 outlets), and if so, which card mother socket do I use? Or would it be better to replace the SATA cable with one that has two connectors on it? Recommendations of cable would be appreciated :-).

  And how I tell the machine that both hard drives is the master and who is the slave?

  Thanks in advance,

  Mark

  Master and slave are IDE terminology the answer is NONE.

  SATA uses ports numbered 0 to blue 4The port is 0, which is the boot drive. The next black port is 1 which is the trunk dvd's.

  White port is 2 where 2nd hard drive and the last black part 3 where would the next optical drive.

  

• (Redirected) Cannot boot from the HARD drive on dell n5010 with SSD and HARD drive installed

  I have my old dell n5010 (15R Inspiron) with SSD (Samsung EVO 840 120 G) installed on the main drive Bay and the HDD (Samsung HJJ 500 G) on the optical drive Bay.

  It is a typical way to add an SSD on such an old laptop (bought from dell.com.cn in 2011).

  My Windows 10 operating system has been installed on the SSD using Samsung Data Migration software, so the previous C drive was pointless. So I formatted and installed an operating system Ubuntu 14.04 on it, hoping the grub OSs double beginning located on the HARD disk.

  However, I find no the Dell bios boot option to boot from the HARD drive installed in my optical drive Bay. All the choices are 'Hard Drive', 'Network' and 'Diagnostic '.

  But I was definitely sure that my bios program has detected the SSD and HDD with information on the main menu of the bios.

  And the LED on the optical drive Bay was immediately once I pressed the Start button on my laptop.

  As a general rule, all things were right except for options of the bios boot.

  Is there a way I can boot from HDD (with installed Ubuntu) while remaining has my SSD on the main drive Bay? I don't want to swap their positions, because the SSD is super fast on the main drive Bay.

  I have alse won't migrate 10 Windows to the HARD drive and reinstall Ubuntu on the SSD, because I'd like my windows be loaded quickly.

  Someone at - it the same problem with me?

  Any suggestion is appreciated!

  As you have a laptop, better make this laptop in the computer Forum post here:

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/laptop/default.aspx

  Bev.

• Install Windows 7 in order to cover both hard drives?

  I saw some laptops that come with two hard drives and Windows 7 seems to have been installed in order to cover the two hard drives. I'll buy a new laptop and replacing the average performance double hard drives with Western Digital Black Edition 750 GB disks hard performance; 5 year warranty compared to normal 3 year warranty.

  I will also be upgrading to Windows 7 Ultimate x 64 (the system comes with Home Premium x 64) and I want to do is to install the system by using any method is used to Pierce two readers and maybe same strip between readers for best performance. Laptops I've seen configuration as this does not have built in raid controllers so I think there must be some option in Windows 7 Setup / partition process to allow you to do this, but I could not find information on exactly how do you this. Can you point me to instructions or describe the process?

  Thank you

  -Chris

  Most new laptops come with a single hard drive.  It is often divided into two 2 partitions: the primary local drive (which has the Windows operating system installed) and a recovery partition (including the Windows system files necessary to perform a systrem recovery operation). For optimal performance, Windows 7 must be installed on only one hard drive. Laptops are not supported for RAID configuration.

  Take a look at: Office RAID is a bad idea

• Best hard drive Mac Mini for CC

  I get my grandson a Mac Mini to run CC and I would like to comment on the choice of hard drive. It will be a high school sophomore in the fall, taking the Junior trail class multi media and use Photoshop and the Prime Minister a little.

  I'm looking at: Mac Mini

  • 2.3 GHz Quad - Core Intel Core i7
  • 16GB

  Now, if you had your choice what drive would you and why. I take into consideration price, speed and scratch on the disc and want to get the best bang for the buck. I am considering the SSD for speed and then perhaps down the road I might add an external for Scratch disk space. I have not use CC but was prepress for many years and has spent a lot of time in Photoshop myself so I know he has a lot to learn and wants to maintain its level of frustration to a minimum. Any thoughts?

  1 TB 5400 RPM Serial ATA hard drive,

  1 TB Fusion drive,

  256 GB Solid State Drive

  Thank you for your comments :-)

  Ask https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum of Premiere Pro

  In general... SSD for the OS and all the software... internal 7200 RPM for data files... If external, it must be USB3 or eSata, USB2 not

• HP Z800: The following hard drive would be a good choice for my z800?

  The following hard drive would be a good choice for my z800?

  I bought it used and I want to start with a new hard drive and rebuild it while I have a Setup wn 10, verus the win 7 64 pro edition.

  Western Digital WD1002FAEX 1 TB black SATA 7.2 K rpm 64 MB Cache 6 G drive 3,5 '' hard

  The reason why I am interested in this player is that are affordable and available from a number of competitive sale points; for example, ebay and amazon, etc.

  In addition, they have good reviews for multimedia applications.

  Hey kbruff2016 welcome to the community!

  WD Black is a powerful HARD drive designed for larger and heavier loads as well as multitasking more heavy. It should serve you well for a long time because it comes with a good warranty of 5 years.

  You have all the drives in your computer? It may be appropriate to consider as SSD for the OS that you would see great improvements in time to start loading and the overall responsiveness of the system.

  If you plan use the HARD drive in any RAID arrays in the future I would recommend going with a NAS/RAID-class drive because they have additional features such as the TLER that ensure a stable and safe performance in such conditions. Red of WD is an example.

  Captain_WD.

• HP Omni 27 - 1200 a: black screen, HARD drive will 'ker, ker click' after power page

  my diet went power three times in quick succession, I have a Belkin surge in place.

  When the power finally settles on my screen was black and the HARD drive has just kept going "ker click, click ker, etc etc. No beeps or anything else.

  The computer man couldn't get anything to show even with the new HARD drive. The old HDD is still running... everything "ker by clicking on '...

  All systems have the power, the fan, USB ports, the disc recorder drive all are ok.

  All secret switches?

  Thank you Jay...

  computer technology has suggested that it might be the motherboard after testing the HARD drive and it does absolutely no good and whatever he does still nothing worked.

  Then... I bought a HP 27 tilt want to replace the Omni 27.

  Problem is that the desire has no DVD disc drive...

  so... I took one of the Omni and put it in a Slim Data kit USB and that fixed that,

  The 16gig of ram instead of the 4 GB installed in my laptop, that made no difference.

  Looking for uses for the rest of the expensive bits... :-)

• Satellite A210 - 11 p - gos black screen and HARD drive does not

  Hello

  My Satellite A210 - 11 p suddenly goes to a black screen and the hard drive stops working. It is always under tension and if I want to restart I have to unplug the unit and remove the battery.

  I thought it was overheating and checked the time and they were really high in the 1980s. I took the fan and cleaned (very dusty) and the basic form of thermal paste. Temperatures plummeted now immediately but I still have the same problem, I updated the graphics driver and watched the temp on GPU (which is fine) but the problem is still happening. I used a number of programs to check for errors on the hard drive and no reported problems. I reloaded Windows 7 but still no joy.
  The problem seems to occur at any time and is not due to the execution of a given program, even just browsing with firefox

  Not too sure what to do and any advice would be welcome.

  Hey Buddy,

  > I reloaded Windows 7 but still no joy.
  Have you ever tried with Toshiba Recovery disk operating system?

  The Toshiba recovery disc there is an image of the settings from the factory with all the drivers and tools. If you install Windows on this disk, you factory back.

  That would mean if you have the same problem after the installation of recovery it s really bad hardware working because you have pretested settings of Toshiba. In this case an authorized service provider can help you make an accurate diagnosis what part is affected.

• Satellite L300 - 17l - no HARD drive & black screen when trying to install XP

  I just bought a Toshiba Satellite L300 - 17l no operating system on it.
  I tried to install xp, but after the initialization of the installation was told he not found any hard... and press F3 to exit Setup.

  And now I can not install anything, because when I turn on the laptop it seems just a black screen

  :( NEED HELP... PLEASE...

  All you need to do is install XP that contains SATA drivers. The XP you are trying to install does not contain them is why it does not recognize your hard drive. If you can't find Xp with SATA drivers, you can create your own drive to install XP with SATA drivers in a few steps:

  (1) download nLite
  (2) download the SATA drivers for your laptop from the Toshiba site
  (3) find Xp installation (normal that you use for your PC)
  (4) start nLite and it will tell you how tointegrate the SATA drivers in the XP installation
  (5) burn the installtion disk
  Install XP on the laptop to 6)