Recent content by garrett1986

if the laptop meets your needs for programs/gaming yes any ssd in a decently recent laptop is worth the upgrade. just dont go crazy maybe spend $150 tops, go for capacity over raw speed, any SSD is so much faster than a traditional hard drive that considering 500mb/s to 550mb/s is superfluous...

bit defender is good spybot S&D 2 spybot anti beacon avast is free still i believe

you should try testing with another drive at this point to see if windows will install on that. See if you have a friend that can loan you a laptop hard drive or SSD just to test with so you don't have to go and possibly waste money before knowing if its the SSD or motherboard. the windows...

if you have access to another PC (library can work wonders), a valid windows 7 key (probably on a sticker on the bottom of your laptop) and an 8gb or larger usb drive you download whats called an ISO (basically its a CD/DVD in a single file that you can store on a hard drive) here...

could be couple things. simplest way to check is to try a different SSD/HDD to troubleshoot. A: your windows installation/boot loader/partition table got corrupted somehow (reinstall windows) B: your SSD is failing and corrupting your windows installation/boot loader/partition table (can test...