Recent content by GregSchock

The hard drive definitely hasn't failed. When I plugged it into my own system and wiped it clean, I was able to use it as a normal 700GB volume for storage. The laptop and the desktop do not share identical chipsets, so that definitely won't work now that I think about it. I installed the OS on...

I was given a nightmare machine laptop by a friend, who claims he accidentally turned it off/lost power during windows updates. The computer was a samsung model NP300E5E. It's still pretty new, and I figured it'd be nice to get it running again. The hard drive was corrupted, and couldn't boot...