We have a laptop, HP Pavillion DV 9000 dating from 2008. It suffered some sort of hiccup last weekend where I got a blue screen on boot up followed by a lot of CHKDSK activity (ie about 3 hours...!) when I tried to re-boot it. Eventually come up, but we look to have had some sort of sector failure on the HDD as some progs will no longer run, and I had a right ball ache reinstalling Skpe last night. Also get periodic video crashes, but this may be due to the graphics chip falling off the MoBo, which is a design fault on these machines. Anyway thinking that a re-install of the OS is in order. Eeek! So, I could make a recovery disk of the Vista back up, but that will need to be patched up to SP2 which took ages. Or I could 'invest' in a Win 7 upgrade, or go Linux. Collective thoughts?
I haven't installed an OS for about 5 years, since I tried to update my previous machine from Win98 to Win2K - after spending all day trying I finally re-installed Win98 and found that the particular drive controller wasn't supported on the Win2K install CD!
Otherwise the laptop might have to fall off the table and I will get some value of out my expensive home insurance!
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