Recent content by usher2016

Yes sir, which gives some breathing room, but I want to get her up and running eventually

I considered having best buy install the hard drive and add an OS for $140, but want to give it a shot myself first

I believe it was 8.1

I bought the hard drive from another retailer for $67.00

I didn't install anything yet. I just swapped the HD and booted the laptop. Is that the next step?

There was a hard drive failure in my wife's HP Laptop (no backup disk was made). I bought a new hard drive: HP 2000-2d80NR (F6S99UA) Hard Drive Replacement (7mm 500GB Serial ATA-2.6 5400RPM HDD) And replaced the old one. When I booted up the laptop, I got this error: "smart hard disj...