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Hard Drive not detected
Name: Mikael Date: January 28, 2009 at 19:21:37 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: Hard Drives
Comment:
I recently reformatted my laptop. It was working fine until today. It says OS not found so i went to bios and I found out that the Hard Drive is not detected. The HD shouldnt be fried since I dont leave it on for that long and i have a cooling pad. I also ran a virus scan last night and nothing appeared so it shouldnt be a cause of a virus.
Its a vgn sz650n sony laptop its not even a year old. Please help me
Name: jam Date: January 28, 2009 at 19:24:31 Pacific
Reply:
Why are you reformating a laptop that's not even a year old?
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Response Number 2
Name: Meikho Date: January 28, 2009 at 19:56:25 Pacific
Reply:
It came with too many preinstalled trial programs and i wanted to downgrade from vista to xp. It was working on xp for around 3 days? and then this happened
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Response Number 3
Name: anmor Date: January 28, 2009 at 22:05:10 Pacific
Reply:
Did you purchase XP for this laptop or did it come from another computer, which was already activated. If so it's possible $MS has picked up on it and deactivated it.
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Can i upgrade my laptop?
