[access-uk] Re: NC10
- From: "Saqib" <saqib500@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:25:14 +0100
Hi Ibrahim I will do this disk check today. Thanks for the suggestion. It was
money well spent on that Disk drive as PC World were going to charge £30 for
the format and re-installation. For an extra £10 I managed to get a device in
which is going to be useful in the long run and had restored my netbook back to
life.
From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:07 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: NC10
Hi Saqib.
Firstly, well done for getting the netbook up and running again. Secondly,
make sure you do a full disk check and make sure that you indeed have no bad
sectors, the disk check utility should tell you this. Finally and probably
most importantly, you were extremely lucky that dropping your netbook in the
way you did only corrupted data; If you drop it again, you might this time
cause physical damage to the disk. I don't know if you know how a hard drive
works, but the hard drive heads read and write data magnetically at incredible
speed less than 1MM from the disk surface. Shocks, vibrations or magnetic
interference can cause those headers to jar the surface platters, damaging
files or if they scratch the magnetic platters themselves destroy physically
sectors making them unusable.
All the best, Ibrahim.
----- Original Message -----
From: Saqib
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:44 PM
Subject: [access-uk] NC10
Hi all. I have resolved my problem with the netbook. I managed to buy a
external drive which is an LG brand. I plugged it in and connected it to the
netbook with it's USB cable. The netbook asked me to hit any key to boot from
the DVD drive. From there on I went through a formatting process which took
over half an hour. The netbook rebooted its self then started to install XP and
that took quite a while and I was asked questions reguards to configuration. I
also had to install the Samsung drivers from the disk supplied. All in all the
whole process took one and an half hours and the netbook runs much faster now.
I won't be installing many apps as I think that might of bin one of the things
which was slowing it down when starting up. Before I had MS Office Student 2007
amongst 3 screen readers along with lot of other applications and voices.
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