A friend of mine bought a laptop in South Korean not thinking that it wouldn't be a pain in the *** to use once she got back to the US. My question is can she reformat the hard drive and turn it into a functional computer?
2006-09-04 15:02:23 · 6 answers · asked by domijn 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The answer to your question is "YES". You did not mention a brand so I would use a sample. For HP, almost all units are the same. They would just bundle it with a foreign operating system like Japanese, Chinese, etc. But you could load it with an English OS (e.g Windows). As long as the keyboard is not a specialized one which only shows characters that are not the ABC. Sometimes it shows mutiple character in the keys. That is OK as long as it has the English letters. There may be some key functions that will be disable once you installed English versions of the operating system. That wouldn't be too much of a hassle because you won't need them in the first place. You must also know the password too. Good luck.
2006-09-04 15:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by George S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The computer I am typing this one was made in korea, so the answer is yes.
I think it has to do with how you are running windows...
if she doesn't have a legal copy, it might be difficult to figure out
2006-09-04 22:05:08 · answer #2 · answered by micke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can,just reformat it with any english version of windows xp,or any operating system you want.
2006-09-05 06:57:46 · answer #3 · answered by jmc 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, change the Univesal setting in the BIOS in settings
2006-09-05 07:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could do that or just try to change the language settings in the control panel>>regional settings.
of course you would have to try to do this without reading the language
2006-09-04 22:05:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-09-04 22:04:35 · answer #6 · answered by cellular 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋