Re: Hard drive failing
QUOTE Anyone have thoughts on what else to do? The laptop is 6.5 years old so I suppose that's it for expected life span. I don't like the thought of losing installed programs, but if I have to reinstall on the next laptop (if and when I can get one), so be it.
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I am wondering if the spec of your 6 1/2 year old machine is up to the task of running windows 7 it seems that you have installed windows 7 on a old machine prob Vista ...what RAM have you got installed ect I changed from Vista to 7 and installed more ram dont forget it is not only the O/S which uses the Ram but the programmes associated with it also if you have enough physical ram check it you could have a faulty module ..Have you gone into your start up via the system configuration menu (msconfig) and made sure you have disabled all the progs you dont need to start up and run in the background ...to many will slow the boot up and make your machine run slow
..I have got these specs off the windows page
"If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver"..
I fear the list is endless unless it is off course a dud H/D and perhaps a nice new modern machine may be in the pipeline ...