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Updates of new hard drive
glicky
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in Techie Stuff
My friend has just had her computer back from the repair shop, where they said they had put a new hard drive in it.
When she got home she started it up and it has come up that it needs updating with 120 new updates dating back to 2010.
Is this correct or have they put a reconditioned Hard Disk in. Should there be that many updates on a new hard disk and dating back that long?
When she got home she started it up and it has come up that it needs updating with 120 new updates dating back to 2010.
Is this correct or have they put a reconditioned Hard Disk in. Should there be that many updates on a new hard disk and dating back that long?
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A new or reconditioned hard disc will be blank. A new installation of Windows 7 can have updates dating from 2010.0
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If they've installed a fresh copy of Windows, then it's likely it'll require updates from whenever their Windows disc was produced.
I recently wiped and reinstalled my GFs laptop for selling on eBay, using a Windows XP disc dated around 2009, once installed it needed 167 Windows updates.
Also the software (the OS) has sweet FA to do with the hard drive.
This is why I stopped doing consumer level IT, most people have zero idea how computers work and because IT techs/engineers usually have a no-nonsense attitude, people always assume your ripping them off. You've got to be a brainless chatty gobsh*te with the presence of a car salesman or no-one will trust you.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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