Recent content by Usernamedbill

Thanks , I'm pretty much resigned to buying a used WD replacement on eBay for $50-60 , the problem now becomes replacing the OS on the damaged drive, I was told that Microsoft might help if given the computer s/n then give me product key, if so then that would be OK ...Thanks again !

I have a Gateway NE722 laptop , its only 1.5 yrd old , it was bought remanufactured on ebay. It always worked great then one morning it would not boot and displayed a error message : Default boot device missing or Boot failed. I have a hard time believing the hdd would crap out so soon but who...