I am pretty sure it is, but just thought I’d get a little more input… It’s an HP Nx9010 laptop, 2.4 ghz, Mobil Intel Pentium 4, used but in excellent condition, 80gig hard drive, cdrw/dvd rom, 512mb ram, ATI video card, 3 usb ports, 15inch display, built in wireless adapter, battery, power supply, has Windows XP Professional installed, and battery holds a good charge. —->0.00
This is what I know at the moment when buying a laptop:
1) Hard disk drive: 80 Gb or greater
2) RAM: 512 MB (2GB or greater..better)
3) Processor: 2.1GHz
4) Numerous USB ports, well as VGA, DVI,serial, PC card slot, and parallel ports
5) Integrated 802.11g wireless adapter (WiFi) compatibility
6) Warranty: at least 2 year on both software and hardware issues(better)
7) Intels new Core 2 Duo CPU’s or AMD Battery life: want 12-cell, but a 9-cell is alright
9) I want Windows XP Pro
10) dual 8800gtx sli ( I have no idea what this means, can someone explain this one to me)
11) Built-wireless and CD/DVD burner
12) Rotational speed hard drive 7200 RPM
13) Screen size: 14" to 15.4" (I want light weight but big enough to read what I am typing)
14) I would also like to be able to connect my digital camera to it.
I think I have research everything I think I need to know, but if anyone can add please feel free to do so. I just don’t know which brand is better than the other.
here is a link to gateway’s windows xp drivers which one is the driver under??? http://support.gateway.com/support/drive…
is the driver i need to fix my laptop’s network adapter under:
My Hard Drive Downloads, My Media Reader Download, My Modem Software, My Motherboard Downloads, My Network Downloads, My Sound Downloads, My Touchpad Downloads, or My Video Downloads????
When I put my charger in the battery doesn’t charge and I thought that it was the adapter so I bought another one but it still doesn’t charge. Is it the place where you stick your adapter in? (I’m sorry, I don’t know what it’s called. I hope you understand what I’m tryin to say) Or is it the battery? How much will it cost to get a new hard drive and to fix the other problem? Please answer, thank you
My computer is a Dell Inspiron 6000
My hard drive crashed. Please tell me what it’ll cost to get a new one
I tried taking the battery out and when I turn it on it comes on for a minute then it shuts off. I think it’s the place where you stick the adapter
John, it just turns on and shows the Windows XP logo then it shuts off
i just installed windows xp on my sony vaio laptop using a windows xp disk from a dell desktop. now my sony vaio laptop is a dell portable desktop with vaio written on it.
i did this cause my laptop fatally crashed. unrestorable.
i need to install a wifi network driver to get my laptop mobile again.
currently my laptop is using a 1394 net adapter.
if someone can tell me where i can get a free wifi driver to install on my
laptop to get it wireless again and how to install it, thatd be great..
side note. since i dont have internet on my laptop, obviously, i been trying to download a broadcom driver or something on my desktop and
transfer it to my laptop using a external hard drive.
Ha-ha! I love ya! why didnt i think of thatt!?
that was easy as shitt! easyy peezyy..
took me less then 5 min, and now im wirless..
I have a 55.8 GB external hard drive. I plugged it into my laptop, a Compaq Presario 700 running Windows XP, and it recognizes the drive is attached, but it keeps freezing the system while trying to load the drivers. It gives me the ‘blue screen of death’ and talks about a kernel error and ‘beginning dump of physical memory.’
It did the same thing with a USB powered flexible keyboard, which I was able to get around by using a USB to P/S2 adapter. However, I tried connecting the external drive with the adapter and it was not recognized at all. My speakers are also making a ‘skipping’ noise when starting the system.
What could be the cause of the freezing? How can I get around this problem?
The power adapter on my laptop died and i need to get some files off of it so i took the SATA hard drive out of my laptop and put it in my desktop computer. the bios on the computer detects the hard drive and Windows XP shows the hard drive in the Device Manager but the partitions on the hard drive do not show up in my computer or the Windows XP Disc Management. I Have also tried to hook it up with a USB Drive Mate and onto another computer. I know my SATA ports on my board are good because both computer have a secondary SATA Hard Drive.
The Laptop does have a little bit of life still in it (about 5 min) and i know it will boot the Hard Drive to all of the 3 partitions (XP, Vista and Ubuntu)
Dell Inspiron Laptop and a Hatachi HTS541680J9SA00 Hard Drive
I used a USB 2.0 to IDE or SATA adapter from Cables to Go to connect the hard drive from my tower pc(running XP) to my new HP Pavilion 9000 laptop loaded with Vista. The hard drive that I connected was the hard drive loaded with the XP OS, and also had a "system restore/recovery" partition on it. It had special recovery software from Emachines (the manufacturer of the PC) I think.
Usually when the Emachines PC is booted, it first shows the main screen with the Emachines logo and also mentions "[F9] for Boot Options] and the like. Then there is a black screen that says "Press [F11] to start recovery __". The "__" is a countdown that always starts from 2 and then goes to 0. When it gets to 0 it always goes to a new screen where it informs you that it is loading Windows XP. I believe the countdown was to inform the user that after 2 seconds, it would be to late to press [F11] and therefore would have to restart the PC in order to perform the System Recovery. Anyway, it no longer behaves the way it should. Now, instead of continuing to the next screen after the count down ends, it posts a new line in the prompt bellow the first one with the same text as the previous line along with a new 2 sec. count down. It repeats the same thing over and over for eternity. I let it cycle through about 300 lines of crap and shut it down. After several more boots, it does the same thing, and the only response to me actually pressing [F11] is that the current line’s count down ends instantly, only to create a new line. Is this because I connected it to a Vista PC? The hard drive definitely works, but why can’t it be booted from? It’s detected by my old PC and it even loads to the "System Recovery" screen, so it must be connecting. Is there some way I can make the hard drive bootable again?
Also, I already tried using the same adapter with my tower PC and tried booting it that way, but it also freezes on the same screen.
It’s running on an HP Pavillion a1530n that I got from my aunt recently after she got a new laptop. It’s all stock parts except for the graphics card, which I bought shortly after at the local CompUSA with some money I made helping my aunt out, and an extra gig of RAM I added recently, which made a big difference with this game. With the original 1GB of RAM, Crysis would load constantly from the harddrive, thus causing some lag whenever something new pops up in the game. With 2GB’s of RAM, though, there are no longer any such issues. Adding extra RAM is always a wonderful thing. PC Specs: -XFX Radeon HD 4350 1GB GDDR2 (overclocked with RivaTuner) -Pentium D 2.80 GHz -2GB DDR2 RAM -Realtek HD onboard audio -300 Watt Power Supply -Window XP Media Center 2005 with Service Pack 3 -250GB harddrive -HP vs17 LCD monitor with a native resolution of 1280×1024 Game Settings: -Screen Resolution: 1280×1024 -Display Mode: Full-Screen -Anti-Aliasing: Off -Texture Detail: High -Objects Quality: High -Shadows Quality: Medium -Physics Quality: Medium -Shaders Quality: Medium -Volumetric Effects Quality: Medium -Game Effects Quality: Medium -Postprocessing Quality: Medium -Particles Quality: Medium -Water Quality: Medium -Sound Quality: Medium You can also see the specs and game settings at the end of the video on the computer screen. The last thing in the video is me taking a screencap of the graphics card specifications on the screen, in case someone couldn’t tell what it said. Here it …
I have a Toshiba laptop computer, works totally fine. but when I take my old toshiba laptops (internal) hard drive and try and swap it it doesn’t work.
Both hard drives are virtually identical. Both connect to the laptop the same way when I open the panel underneath. EXCEPT on the old laptop it had an adapter on the prongs that I have to remove in order to make it fit.
But once i remove that plastic adapter both hard drives look identical and are labelled identical. so i can place the old hard drive in the new toshiba computer.
the problem happens when I turn the computer on, it freezes on a black screen after the windows (XP) "loading" dots. Than the screen just goes black.
When I try booting up in safe mode with command prompt it fires through all of the Windows .dll files it needs to load on the screen but hangs on crccheck and just freezes.
any help? i just want my old hard drive to work on this machine. it connects perfectly fine. hard drive is a
Toshiba Disk Drive MK2035GSS
HDD2A30
It’s the data i want on the drive. i could careless about the drive.
any ideas how i can get the data off of it to another drive?
i cant even access a terminal when i put it into the laptop. and i only have one laptop
My friends laptop died, so i pulled out the hard drive and reformatted it using a usb adapter i have. Now how would i install Windows XP onto the laptops hardrive via usb?
Well since it doesnt have a floppy drive i cant get a bootable cd to install an os on the laptop in the first place
My brother has an HP laptop. The other day windows xp became corrupt and needed to be wiped and reinstalled, but he needed a lot of school files off of his computer. So i took the hard drive out of his laptop, and connected it to my desktop using the 2.5" to 3.5" adapter. I got the files off just fine. Then, when i put the hard drive back in his laptop and try to install windows xp i get and error saying: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer."
Why isnt the laptop recognizing the hard drive now…?
Note: My desktop won’t recognize it anymore either if i try and use the adapter.
Ive double checked many times. I’ve also listened to the hard drive and can’t even hear it rotating.
I pulled an old hdd from one of my friends laptops that was running windows 95. Now I am trying to transfer some files namely .doc and .xls over to his new Mac Book. I am running windows xp and have the old hdd attached to my laptop via a USB adapter. The problem is that I cannot get my machine to recognize the hdd from the old laptop. Any ideas?
I purchased from Cables to Go the USB2.0 IDE adapter model#30500 and the laptop to IDE hard drive adapter model# 17705. I’m running windows XP home on both my desktop and the laptop hard drive that I’m attemping to connect. The laptops hard drive will spin up but it will not indicate that a devise is attached. My USB ports are fine. I’ve attempted to locate it in the devise manager, and nothing shows. How do I set my jumper to master?
I have an old internal desktop IDE hard disk with WIndows XP installed on it. I keep it for compatibility reasons. My old laptop only has a SATA drive, but I have an adapter that turns any internal hard disk into a USB drive. It goes to the Windows boot screen, and starts to load windows, then for a fraction of a second a blue screen and it restarts. Windows XP was installed on the drive via a Desktop PC.
Windows Seven and OSX Leopard do the same thing.
I am trying to get Windows XP from my Desktop to run on my Laptop…
I have an HP Pavilion ze4400 with Windows XP, and a Western Digital 100gb USB portable hard drive (which i use like a mega flash drive). I recently bought a Linksys Wireless-N USB Network Adapter #WUSB300N to use for connecting to public wifi spots for the purpose of downloading large files (i only have dial-up at home) onto my portable hard drive (the laptop has almost no room, 32gb originally) since the built-in wireless adapter is both outdated, and limited in strength. While the Linksys adapter works perfect in browsing the net at 100mb/s connection, the problem is that if i plug my usb hard drive in first, verify it is running and accessible, and then plug in the USB wifi adapter, suddenly the usb HD disappears like i had unplugged it, without having even touched it or its connection to the laptop. I know that the laptop has worked both USB ports simultaneously before, this is my first time seeing a problem like this. Thoughts or suggestions on what to try, or alternatives?
So I was also wondering, if I did replace my laptop’s hard drive, how do I get windows on it? The recovery program has to be booted up, like.. needs Acer E Recovery to reformat. I have disc for reformatting, but they don’t really do anything. I tried the laptop doesn’t boot the disc. Is it possible to copy my entire laptop hard drive’s data to my desktop’s secondary hard drive, then plug in my new hard drive and place all those files into that hard drive. Would that work? I could purchase a 2.5 to 3.5 hard drive adapter thingie for 10 bucks… But I’m worried it won’t work.
I would kind of like my original windows xp x.x
I have an old 200 MB laptop hard drive that I’m trying to connect to any of my more recent computers via a USB adapter. Ultimately what I’m trying to do is set up a Windows XP laptop to boot up in DOS mode so that I can run on it a professional PCMCIA MIDI card whose manufacturer stopped writing driver software for it after Windows 95, and the old hard drive has all the files I need for that.
As far as I can tell the hard drive adapter itself works fine, because the hard drive powers up, but none of my computers, which between them run Windows Me, Windows XP and Windows Vista, will read the drive or even recognize that it’s there, even if I plunk in the driver software for the adapter when running from Windows Me. What might be happening here? Is the hard drive too old, or is there a BIOS or file system (i.e. FAT/FAT32/NTFS) incompatibility issue? The old hard drive originally came from a Toshiba T1950 running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1.
(BTW, the solution isn’t as simple as "plug the hard drive back into the T1950 and access it from there"–the T1900 series laptops have apparently become notorious for a problem in the power circuit, with the result that users have to press the power button literally hundreds, if not thousands, of times before the laptop will finally kick in. There’s a possible repair for the power circuit problem–see, for example, http://www.electronics.dit.ie/staff/bredmond/tosh486fix/index.shtml –but this is too advanced, let alone time-consuming, for me to try myself, and I’d rather be making music than soldering circuit boards.)
Also, what I’m thinking of doing is ordering an IDE adapter so that I can try plugging the drive directly into my Win Me computer’s disk drive system. Are there any foreseeable problems along this line?
The XP laptop is a refurbished machine that I bought a couple of weeks ago, and while it came with XP pre-installed, it didn’t have the XP system disks. Getting XP on eBay isn’t exactly a cheap or timely option given that I’m already looking into buying a PCI-to-PCMCIA adapter for the Windows Me desktop and an external MIDI module.
im pretty tech savvy, just not when it comes to hardware
i need a new hdd, a laptop (2.5") one, maybe 7200 rpms, and something like 40 gigs will do. if any, i would like one that its under . im pretty sure i need an ide. will it be hard to replace my old one and install this one? and (if u need this or not) it must follow these guildines:
Power Supply
• AC Adapter: 120W external AC Adapter, 100-240V / 50-60Hz
frequency (Universal) input voltage, 15V x 8A Output.
Dimensions (LxWxH): 5.7” x 1.7” x 2.1”
Weight: 1.4lbs
• Battery Pack: 12-cell, rechargeable, removable Lithium Ion (Li-
Ion) battery, 8400mAh
• Dimensions (LxWxH): 8.1” x 3.6” x 0.9”
• Battery Saver (in Windows XP): Stand by, HDD Auto Off, Display
Auto Off, Throttling, Hibernation
• Battery life (main batt): 2.9H***
*lol please note im not being lazy makin someone else find it for me, i’ve been looking all day! thanks!!!!!!!
Battery life: want 12-cell, but a 9-cell is alright
