Help me please (Broken Laptop)

inamabilis

Your drivers are online so all you need to do is find a friend/neighbour/family member who has a vista install cd you can borrow.

inamabilis

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Just out of interest,I bought a new laptop a couple of weeks ago and I did'nt get any discs with it.Should I have?.It's an Acer Aspire 5920.

Cant say for sure but if you have a restore partition (do you have a 'd' drive in my computer) then it's possible you should not have received any cds

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

inamabilis wrote: »

Cant say for sure but if you have a restore partition (do you have a 'd' drive in my computer) then it's possible you should not have received any cds

Thanks I've just checked and it says I have a D drive so I guess that's why I did'nt get one.

Donnie

A replacement HDD should cost around 30 pounds....and that's it.

It's possibly an SATA HDD, so the one above may not be suitable. Either way, the price will be similar.

Personally, I would replace it with a larger HDD, there being not much of a price differential.

If there is a COA sticker on the laptop, someone can point you towards a suitable disc and drivers for re-installation.

The problem with selling it when it isn't working, is that no one will know for sure that replacing the HDD will fix the problem.

So you are looking at a scrap price, unless you fix it.

If you still want to sell it, how much?
I could do with a new project, even though I don't actually need another laptop.

I guess a PM would be a suitable place to begin.

peter_the_piper

Why not get a second opinion? If its the well known pc shop which we all know and love, then they are not the best at diagnosing faults, try small shop. Also a general point, are not hard drives covered by a separate manufacturers guarantee? I've replaced mine before and sent the old one back to the makers as it had a 3 year guarantee so ask for the old one back if you get it replaced. Always worth having a spare. Go through their website for details.