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Bought a laptop 2 days ago. Today it is useless.
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It had windows xp home that my friend used but I had my copies of media center so i decided to get rid of his crap and put on the same os that i'm used to and then WHOOPS, an error during the reformatting and installation process and it shuts down. I went into the bios to change the boot order to select the cd-rom to start installation of windows again but it doesn't work. I hate computer problems so bad. I'm usualyl good at fixing em but what the hell do i do here.
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tellem it came like that, get it warrantied or smthin
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try to like take out the initial memory source to delete all previous data
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spill beer on it - ruins good computer, so naturally, it'll fix yours.
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warranty is expired. and obviously my friend that i bought it form knows it used to work. yyyyep
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short warranty...
was it used?
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don't even bother responding to this.
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yeah my friend had it a year or 2
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call the hp help line or whatever
i did it and got to talk to a very lovely indian-accented woman for 2 hours
my problem was fixed
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why would you change it from home to media center? they are practically identical except for a different coloured toolbar.
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I am pretty sure media center only works on specific hardware. You most likely have hardware on there that DOES NOT have media center certification, or drivers.
Put xp pro on it and I bet it works perfect.
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so a 48 horu warentee...you got jewed
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Probably should have got a mac.
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the reason i was switching to media center involves a problem that i don't feel like explaining. let this thread die, like the laptop.
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nice dude, I said the same thing above and was self-owned.
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sell it on ebay "as is" and get a mac
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no thanks, not gonna spend that much.
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if you're that desperate and really want to get it to work, go a local computer repair shop, tell them everything then see what they say, or go to a best buy and have the geek squad do it, though it will probably be a little more pricey. it will get fixed though
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replace the hard drive, or put the hard drive in another computer as a second drive and reformat it.
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unplug it, take out the memory and the system clock battery, then put it all back in and boot from your CD
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i was just about to write that. thanks for stating the obvious.
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dont buy a used laptop.
expecially a used laptop running windows
MAC POWER!
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throw it out the window til it works
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throw it off a real tall building or somethin, thatd be dope. i alwayz wanna throw stuff off the parking garage in my town but i dont have anything to throw.
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i hate the mac vs pc thing. if i had the need for a mac i'd get one, but i prefer pc's. always have, probly always will.
as for used laptops or any computer, i don't think there is anything wrong with them. just liking buying a used car, it involves risk.
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that really should work actually...
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yeah i think i have done that before. can laptop hard drives be hooked up to a desktop? i don't want to rip open the laptop to find it incompatible.
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thanks, very helpful link.
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actually yes they can, they are just normal IDE (or SATA) drive . The only difference is that they are 2.5inch and not 3.5 like your desktop harddrive, you should'nt have any problem formating your labtop hardrive on your desktop.
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im aware of that, however if you looked at the adapter there is a different amount of pins on a 2.5in vs. a 3.5in
get your facts straight bro
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FUCK!! SALSA ON MY KEYBOARD!!
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and that's .... TRUE
sorry... won't happen again.
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didnt he get it from his friend
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