Recent content by Volpo

I formatted, repartitioned and cleaned the HD. Installed Win7 x64. Needed 193 updates. Runs like a top. Go figure?

FYI, I used Easeus Partition Manager (Free) to create one NTFS partition put the original drive back into the laptop and it posted and then booted the Acronis 10 home disk in the optical. I'm 'cleansing the drive now and will do the re-install of Windows next. I still cannot understand why it...

Thanks for your comments. I've decided to try the nuke and pave option. I just have to know if it is hardware or software related. If I scrub the drive and the machine posts I know that it was something on the drive and not the drive itself. I suppose that it could be that something in the bios...

Thanks for responding. As I said the laptop will post without its original drive in the bay. It will post and boot from an Ubuntu 10.10 disk in the optical drive. From Ubuntu file manager I can see the drive and all contents ( the drive in an enclosure). I bought a new drive WD Blue 500gb and...

I have an Asus laptop that just stopped working, won't even post. After the usual things to try - re-seat ram, make sure all connections are proper etc. I removed the HD and mounted in an enclosure to see if that's where the problem was. The HD was read in the enclosure no problem. Just for...