my precious dear laptop broke [im sad]
i have a old ibm laptop it doent even have a mouse pad. it has a little dot that moves the arrow. but anyway i was on myspace and my laptop broke again. a messenge up came and said somthing about windows shuting down i been trying to turn it on but all my laptop does is goes to to a black screen that says hit alt+ctrl+del to restart and i do that and it comes back again. i dont understand why ? before when my laptop broke it was also on myspace and it said that the hard drive could not be found so my friend dad installed one. my laptop is old when i run it u hear rattling from inside.
is there anything i can do ?
2007-01-24 05:03:33 · 5 answers · asked by it's HG !! 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Replacing a laptop hard drive is not all that hard as long as you have the install disks for your OS and other software plus backups for your data.
If you don't, you might try buying a new hard disk with a portable USB disk enclosure. You pull the old drive, mount the new drive in the PC, mount the old drive in the USB enclosure, reinstall your operating system and such on the new drive, and then see if the PC can recover any of your data on the old drive.
2007-01-24 05:15:11 · answer #1 · answered by Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not familiar with black screens that say "hit ctrl+alt+del". You're going to have to give us the exact message and when it happens. Is it a windows screen or is it something it displays immediately after it gives you the checking memory and hard drives screen? Is it on the top left of the screen or in the center?
Most likely your laptop is fine.
2007-01-24 13:11:35 · answer #2 · answered by manuelriliz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a problem with the hard drive.
If it is old, chances are the hard drive is failing and needs to be replaced. It might be able to be repaired using some utility, but when it starts having problems, it is best to just replace the hard drive.
2007-01-24 13:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
may b ur HDD's discs r running like rat or ur cd rom.
i think soon ur HDD will b halted, so make backups and look for replacement.
2007-01-24 13:11:07 · answer #4 · answered by noyonk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, save your money and buy a new one.
2007-01-24 13:10:17 · answer #5 · answered by dhs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋