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vista to windows cost

aayush
aayush Posts: 1,295 Forumite
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Hi can any one advise the cost of the above as have hard which i want change
and cost of increase gb on hard drive

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  • Inner_Zone
    Inner_Zone Posts: 2,856 Forumite
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    aayush wrote: »
    Hi can any one advise the cost of the above as have hard which i want change
    and cost of increase gb on hard drive

    ?

    Vista is a version of MS Windows.

    HDD, search on numerous retailers websites.
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    Brand name and full model number of machine?
  • aayush
    aayush Posts: 1,295 Forumite
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    Brand name and full model number of machine?

    the name compq model number is SR 552 E2180
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,970 Forumite
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    Cost to upgrade the hard drive? How much storage do you want to add?

    £3 to £300,000,000,000 ???
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    aayush wrote: »
    the name compq model number is SR 552 E2180

    There are characters missing. Try again. How difficult can it be to transcribe something exactly as written?
  • aayush
    aayush Posts: 1,295 Forumite
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    there are characters missing. Try again. How difficult can it be to transcribe something exactly as written?

    sr5522 e2180
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    You can do it no cost, but I doubt your ability to carry out the instructions. Is that an unfair comment?
  • aayush
    aayush Posts: 1,295 Forumite
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    You can do it no cost, but I doubt your ability to carry out the instructions. Is that an unfair comment?

    thanks for vote of confidence
  • NiftyDigits
    NiftyDigits Posts: 10,459 Forumite
    aayush wrote: »
    thanks for vote of confidence

    Ok...let's see.

    The first step would be to find an empty USB flash drive and make it 'bootable'.

    Take the empty USB Flash Drive(size not that important, though small capacity is good), plug it in, then download and run Rufus and use these settings:

    rufus_dos_install.png

    No reason to touch Cluster Size or Volume Label and you may prefer to use MS-DOS instead of FreeDOS.

    Click Start and let Rufus do it's thing.

    Once complete, click here to download and save the three files needed for the firmware update.

    Download and save and then drag/send/copy the contents of the folder(the three files within, not the folder itself) on to your newly bootable USB flash drive..
    Once done, choose to make the USB flash drive the drive from which the desktop boots. You do that by pressing the F12 key soon after you press the power button or as soon as the machine begins to restart.
    Once you have done that and boot on to the USB Flash drive, it will begin the BIOS update. Let it do it's thing.
    Once complete, reboot if necessary.

    Let me know when you have completed the task.
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