Recent content by mindspin311

I'm just gonna buy a new one and put it on craigslist. If anyone needs a <SPAM> :P I really wanted an explanation of how I could get so many random error messages though.. If anyone has an explanation despite my problem being resolved, please post. My curisoity and other future searching...

nevermind. forced it out. can't ever remember it taking that much force to get a hard drive out though.

I tried to run the ubuntu startup disk just to see if I could run the os off the cd. It works, so I'm doubting it's any other hardware issue. When I tried to partition and install, It wouldn't recognize a hard disk to do so. Plus when loading it gave many errors which I believe were about the...

Okay, I took some pictures of what it says when it only flashes for a second. When going into safemode, 2 different things happen. 1st it sometimes takes like 2 minutes to load the files. when this happens, the blue screen says: STOP: c0000221 unknown HardError \SystemRoot\system32\ntdll.dll...

I should also note that I have some files on here I'd like to recover, so I haven't tried to reinstall an OS from scratch. Plus this was a notebook I got from my school, so no cd's were included. I do have a copy of XP though that is currently not being used on any pc. I'd prefer a way to fix...

I got an IBM Thinkpad T42. For probably over a year it hasn't work, and I didn't try to really do anything since I got a new thinkpad right before it stopped working. I'm trying to fix this up for someone now. Here's the problem. When I power on, I press the blue 'Access IBM' button. After a...