I've been having trouble with my Acer Aspire 3000 series laptop for about a week now. It was getting very slow before one day it just shut down on me. When I tried to boot it back up, it gets to the black Windows XP page and just sits there forever. If I let it go after about 10-20 mins it will get to a blue chkdsk page and it will try to run the program but it will take like an hr for it to get up to 5%. I know I didn't have a virus because I ran the anti-virus a few days before it crashed. I don't know what else to do. When the chkdsk program runs, it keeps saying bad clusters and all these different numbers for the system. I have no clue what to do, any ideas? Please everyone, I don't have the money to buy a new laptop right now and I hate trying to do things on this ancient desktop I still have.
2007-07-22 10:09:24 · 5 answers · asked by joe_b91105 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Yeah I forgot to mention that the laptop is past its warranty, so sending it back into the company is not going to work. I don't want to get it repaired locally because their prices are outrageous.. any other ideas?? I really don't want to go out and have to buy a new laptop
2007-07-23 06:19:51 · update #1
Hello joe_b91105
Plug your laptop into the power supply.
Start the laptop and press the F8 or F5 key.
If it starts performing a checkdisk, let it run until it is finished.
The computer will attempt to start.
If it is still unable to start, purchase another Hard Drive that is compatible to your laptop.
If you have the XP Home or restore cd's, install onto new hard drive.
There hard drive cases that can connect to your computer through the usb port. Purchase or borrow one of these cases and install your old hard drive into it.
Connect it to the laptop with the power off.
Turn the power on; when XP loads open My Computer.
If your old hard drive is readable, you should be able to recover some if not all of your data unless that is the area where the bad sectors were located.
Good Luck.
2007-07-30 10:02:04 · answer #1 · answered by Comp-Elect 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
man the computer is still ok but the harddrive has severly crashed.
you have to do a slow format to the drive , try also repartitioning it and reinstalling xp again and it ll work .
this happened to me before and i know the situation but i cant exactly judge form info.
if you still have a guarranty on it dont try to fix it just return it and they ll replace the harddrive for you , this is a 100% hardrive crash and its not your fault.
althaught this might be due to a power loss during boot or shutdown or data transfer , if thats the case dont mention that to the shop because then you have to pay.
2007-07-22 17:23:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I hate trying to do things on this ancient desktop I still have." I take it its not in warranty.
I would personally reformat the hard drive, but that means losing all your data. You could take it into a computer shop but they charge a lot for simple things.
If you are comfortable with trying to fix it yourself, go on over to:
http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/
and register in the forum. I am sure they will help you!
2007-07-22 17:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by Jack D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't buy Acer. They truly are crap. You may get one in 100 that's decent, but the build quality is just ****. They tend to **** themselves over. Cheap.
2007-07-28 02:48:01 · answer #4 · answered by Kilira 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask the acer tech guy on here we have a couple of them and there good.
2007-07-29 19:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by gr0undh0gd4y 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋