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New 1TB hard drive can't setup
Hi guys
I've searched the forum and read every tutorial.
I have a serious problem. Long story short my laptop Windows 7 32bit starts up the the desktop locks nothing responds. Press Ctrl+Alt+delete doesn't bring up Task Manager. Turn it off and restart a few time. The it does a chkdsk. Previous chkdsk it takes over a day to complete this time it took 20 minutes. The message on the screen said 24 bad blocks.
Ok I need a new hard drive. I searched Currys and they showed 2 drives on the list.
WD Mainstream 2.5" Internal Hard Drive - 1 TB £52.99 they no longer stocked. It they show any item on there site then it should be avaliable.
Buy WD Mainstream 2.5" Internal Hard Drive - 1 TB | Free Delivery | Currys
SATA II 3 Gb/s interface
Spin speed: 5400 rpm
8 MB cache
SEAGATE BarraCuda 2.5" Internal Hard Drive - 1 TB £49.99 Product code: 227150
Buy SEAGATE BarraCuda 2.5" Internal Hard Drive - 1 TB | Free Delivery | Currys
ST1000LM048
SATA III 6 Gb/s interface
Spin speed: 5400 rpm
128 MB cache
I asked a guy that showed me the drives this one is SATA III mine is SATA II will it still work. He said yes its just a faster drive.
There is a 45 page booklet with the new drive that only talks about the warranty not how in install.
When I start up now it shows recover files or startup as normal. Recover files takes hours and never finishes. When I bought my laptop in 2012 it had Windows 8 64bit installed.
Orinal Hitachi HTS547575A9E384 750GB hard drive SATA II MBR
I hated that so I bought a bigger 1TB drive of fleabay. New Seagate Momentus 1TB Hard Drive 2.5 Interna
£50.
I set that up with l Computer Management MBR. Windows 7 32bit installed no problem. I plugged the old Windows 8 drive back in and the startup message says insert installation CD. Wht the hell does it say that as it worked perfectly when I removed it?
The thing is this SATA III compatible with my system. Or have I got to take it back for a refund if WD Mainstream 2.5" Internal Hard Drive is not available. Or ask them to make it MBR.
The addition problem I have is the CD/DVD drive popped out 1.5" when it fell on the carpet a while I pushed it back in and thought nothing about. I tried to install some software later and the drive would only pop out 1.5". I have an external USD DVD drive I use to install anything.
While I've remmoved the old hard drive I decided to look why the drive does pop out. I've looked at many Tube video's Samsung didmantling. I still can't remove the DVD drive.
There is a good tutorial Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
I downloaded Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe but when I run it on Windows XP 32bit. It says Microsoft Image Mastering API v2.0 is needed. The Windows XP 32bit are no longer available only 64bit.
That's another thing that pisses me off with Microsoft when Bill Gates stated that ALL Windows software is compatible with all Windows system. So why isn't 32bit compatible with 64bit if 32bit isn't available.
I have a 4GB flash drive. I put all the files and folders into a drive of the Windows 7 CD I uses PowerISO to make an iso file. But if I put it on the flash drive I can't get it to show USB on startup there is no option.
Any help with my problems will be much appreciated.
Last edited by Keithuk; 07 Jan 2019 at 12:56.