I post here as a last resort and need some help...

I have a VIAO Sony PCV-7752 desktop PC, I added a new HDD and did a fresh
install of XP on it. I set this new HDD as the boot drive (C) but kept the old
HDD hooked up. The old HDD also has XP with the original XP installed from Sony.

When booted with the new HDD I have no audio or drivers however, if I select the
old, original HDD as boot, audio does work. I copied the drivers from
C:\WINDOWS\system32 to the new HDD then rebooted to the new HDD.

I then go to device manager and dbl click audio and multimedia control (with
yellow ?) and try to reinstall drivers. I browse to the copy of system32 then to
drivers but nothing is found by the wizard.

What do I need to do to get the drivers installed on the new HDD ?

BTW: I cannot find them online anywhere

Thanks for any guidance !

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@...
509-891-5188 

 

I post here as a last resort and need some help...

I have a VIAO Sony PCV-7752 desktop PC, I added a new HDD and did a fresh install of XP on it. I set this new HDD as the boot drive (C) but kept the old HDD hooked up. The old HDD also has XP with the original XP installed from Sony.

When booted with the new HDD I have no audio or drivers however, if I select the old, original HDD as boot, audio does work. I copied the drivers from C:\WINDOWS\system32 to the new HDD then rebooted to the new HDD.

I then go to device manager and dbl click audio and multimedia control (with yellow ?) and try to reinstall drivers. I browse to the copy of system32 then to drivers but nothing is found by the wizard.

What do I need to do to get the drivers installed on the new HDD ?

BTW: I cannot find them online anywhere

Thanks for any guidance !

I am getting dire warnings from the S.M.A.R.T. disk in my laptop, a Sony VAIO
VPC-F13YFX. I guess that I'm going to have to change my 13 month old drive but
I'm wondering whether anyone knows whether I can put in a larger, faster (both
rotational speed and transfer rate) into the system.

Basically, will any 2.5" SATA drive work or do I need to limit myself to 640Gb,
5400rmp, 3.0Gbps drives? I'd like to put in either a 750Gb or 1Tb drive that
spins at 7200rpm, but I have not been able to find any information about whether
I can get away with that.

Thanks.
David

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@...
509-891-5188 

 

I am getting dire warnings from the S.M.A.R.T. disk in my laptop, a Sony VAIO VPC-F13YFX. I guess that I'm going to have to change my 13 month old drive but I'm wondering whether anyone knows whether I can put in a larger, faster (both rotational speed and transfer rate) into the system.

Basically, will any 2.5" SATA drive work or do I need to limit myself to 640Gb, 5400rmp, 3.0Gbps drives? I'd like to put in either a 750Gb or 1Tb drive that spins at 7200rpm, but I have not been able to find any information about whether I can get away with that.

Thanks.
David

your Vaio can take any size sata hard drive. when you install Windows create
separate partitions of say 100gb for Windows and the rest for your saved files;
that way you can re-install Windows in the future without losing everything!

--- In Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com, Ardell Faul <ardell@...> wrote:
>
> You should be able to put a 1Tb 7200 rpm drive in the unit without any
> issues.
>
> Why do you want such a large drive?  For what its worth, my experience
> has been that the larger the drive, the more likely it is to fail.  The
> fact that your last drive only lasted 13 months before giving you
> immanent failure messages bears this out.  The only need I have seen for
> drives that large is for storing a LOT of music, or videos.  If you are
> walking around with a laptop with a 1Tb drive that only has 40 or 50
> Gigabytes of data in it, you are needlessly endangering your data.  A
> hard drive can fail in a laptop just from setting it down too hard, to
> say nothing of dropping it just a few inches.  I recently had a friend
> whose back up drive, a 1 Tb external drive, failed after he accidentally
> simply tipped it over while backing up some data.  He had over 14,000
> pictures in it from travels all around the globe, and now the only way
> he can get them back is to have a data recovery firm repair the drive in
> a clean room environment, price about $3000.00.
>
> I know its a "geeky" thing to do, putting a nice, big, Terra byte drive
> in a laptop, but I keep them well under that, around 100 Gbytes is fine
> for most applications.
>
> Ardell Faul
> Computer Monitor Service Inc.
> Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
> 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
> Spokane Valley, Wa.  99206
> ardell@...
> 509-891-5188
>
>
> On 6/2/2012 8:45 PM, David wrote:
> >
> > I am getting dire warnings from the S.M.A.R.T. disk in my laptop, a
> > Sony VAIO VPC-F13YFX. I guess that I'm going to have to change my 13
> > month old drive but I'm wondering whether anyone knows whether I can
> > put in a larger, faster (both rotational speed and transfer rate) into
> > the system.
> >
> > Basically, will any 2.5" SATA drive work or do I need to limit myself
> > to 640Gb, 5400rmp, 3.0Gbps drives? I'd like to put in either a 750Gb
> > or 1Tb drive that spins at 7200rpm, but I have not been able to find
> > any information about whether I can get away with that.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > David
> >
> >
>

1) Open Device Manager.

2) Locate the device that you want to install the drivers for.

3) Right click on the device's name or icon and choose Properties.

In the Properties window, select the Driver tab.

4) Click the Update Driver... button. The Hardware Update Wizard will begin.

5) To the "Can Windows connect to Windows Update to search for software?"
question, choose the No, not this time radio button and then click the Next >
button.

6) To the "What do you want the wizard to do?" question, choose the Install from
a list or specific location (Advanced) radio button and then click the Next >
button.

The next window that appears will be the Please choose your search and
installation options. window containing several radio buttons and checkboxes.

7) Choose the Don't search. I will choose the driver to install. radio button
and then click the Next > button.

8) Click the Have Disk... button on the Select the device driver you want to
install for this hardware. window.

9) Click the Browse... button on the Install From Disk dialog box that appeared.

In the Locate File dialog box that appears next, navigate to
c:\Windows\System32\Drivers

10) Click the INF file that matches your device and click the Open button.



--- In Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com, Ardell Faul <ardell@...> wrote:
>
> Since you can still boot from the original hard drive, I suggest you
> install one of the driver backup programs.  That will allow you to find
> all the current drivers, save them then export them to the new hard
> drive and use them there.  There are several good ones available for
> free, and this web site should take you to a download site without too
> much clicking around.
> http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-windows-driver-backup.htm
>
> Ardell Faul
> Computer Monitor Service Inc.
> Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
> 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
> Spokane Valley, Wa.  99206
> ardell@...
> 509-891-5188
>
>
> On 6/2/2012 9:24 AM, steve_destin wrote:
> >
> > I post here as a last resort and need some help...
> >
> > I have a VIAO Sony PCV-7752 desktop PC, I added a new HDD and did a
> > fresh install of XP on it. I set this new HDD as the boot drive (C)
> > but kept the old HDD hooked up. The old HDD also has XP with the
> > original XP installed from Sony.
> >
> > When booted with the new HDD I have no audio or drivers however, if I
> > select the old, original HDD as boot, audio does work. I copied the
> > drivers from C:\WINDOWS\system32 to the new HDD then rebooted to the
> > new HDD.
> >
> > I then go to device manager and dbl click audio and multimedia control
> > (with yellow ?) and try to reinstall drivers. I browse to the copy of
> > system32 then to drivers but nothing is found by the wizard.
> >
> > What do I need to do to get the drivers installed on the new HDD ?
> >
> > BTW: I cannot find them online anywhere
> >
> > Thanks for any guidance !
> >
> >
>

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@...
509-891-5188 

 

your Vaio can take any size sata hard drive. when you install Windows create separate partitions of say 100gb for Windows and the rest for your saved files; that way you can re-install Windows in the future without losing everything!

--- In Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com, Ardell Faul <ardell@...> wrote:
>
> You should be able to put a 1Tb 7200 rpm drive in the unit without any
> issues.
>
> Why do you want such a large drive? For what its worth, my experience
> has been that the larger the drive, the more likely it is to fail. The
> fact that your last drive only lasted 13 months before giving you
> immanent failure messages bears this out. The only need I have seen for
> drives that large is for storing a LOT of music, or videos. If you are
> walking around with a laptop with a 1Tb drive that only has 40 or 50
> Gigabytes of data in it, you are needlessly endangering your data. A
> hard drive can fail in a laptop just from setting it down too hard, to
> say nothing of dropping it just a few inches. I recently had a friend
> whose back up drive, a 1 Tb external drive, failed after he accidentally
> simply tipped it over while backing up some data. He had over 14,000
> pictures in it from travels all around the globe, and now the only way
> he can get them back is to have a data recovery firm repair the drive in
> a clean room environment, price about $3000.00.
>
> I know its a "geeky" thing to do, putting a nice, big, Terra byte drive
> in a laptop, but I keep them well under that, around 100 Gbytes is fine
> for most applications.
>
> Ardell Faul
> Computer Monitor Service Inc.
> Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
> 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
> Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
> ardell@...
> 509-891-5188
>
>
> On 6/2/2012 8:45 PM, David wrote:
> >
> > I am getting dire warnings from the S.M.A.R.T. disk in my laptop, a
> > Sony VAIO VPC-F13YFX. I guess that I'm going to have to change my 13
> > month old drive but I'm wondering whether anyone knows whether I can
> > put in a larger, faster (both rotational speed and transfer rate) into
> > the system.
> >
> > Basically, will any 2.5" SATA drive work or do I need to limit myself
> > to 640Gb, 5400rmp, 3.0Gbps drives? I'd like to put in either a 750Gb
> > or 1Tb drive that spins at 7200rpm, but I have not been able to find
> > any information about whether I can get away with that.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > David
> >
> >
>

I agree.

Steve

-----Original Message-----

From:  Ardell Faul <ardell@...>
Subj:  Re: [Laptop_Repair] Re: disk change for a vaio vpc-f13yfx
Date:  Sun Jun 3, 2012 3:15 pm
Size:  15K
To:  "Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com" <Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com>

                        The technique of partitioning a hard drive into 2 or more
partitions does absolutely no good if your hard drive fails. A hard drive will
NOT have just one partition fail--they will all fail. Putting the Windows files
on a separate partition from the data is inconvenient, and will only be a
benefit if you are doing a complete reinstall of Windows.

  Personally, I have repaired several thousand desktop and laptop computers, and
have had to do a complete re-install of windows because I couldn't repair the
existing installation maybe a dozen times. That is about 12 times out of
thousands of repairs. I know the Geek squad and a lot of shops that don't want
to spend the time repairing Windows will pull your documents folders, then
format the hard drive, reinstall a fresh copy of Windows, then put your data
back in. That is my repair of LAST resort, not first resort.
  Ardell Faul Computer Monitor Service Inc. Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair 10816
E. Mission Ave., Spokane Valley, Wa.  99206 ardell@... 509-891-5188
  On 6/3/2012 11:32 AM, pauldzirvinskis@... wrote:     your Vaio can
take any size sata hard drive. when you install Windows create separate
partitions of say 100gb for Windows and the rest for your saved files; that way
you can re-install Windows in the future without losing everything!

  --- In Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com, Ardell Faul <ardell@...> wrote:
  >
  > You should be able to put a 1Tb 7200 rpm drive in the unit without any
  > issues.
  >
  > Why do you want such a large drive? For what its worth, my experience
  > has been that the larger the drive, the more likely it is to fail. The
  > fact that your last drive only lasted 13 months before giving you
  > immanent failure messages bears this out. The only need I have seen for
  > drives that large is for storing a LOT of music, or videos. If you are
  > walking around with a laptop with a 1Tb drive that only has 40 or 50
  > Gigabytes of data in it, you are needlessly endangering your data. A
  > hard drive can fail in a laptop just from setting it down too hard, to
  > say nothing of dropping it just a few inches. I recently had a friend
  > whose back up drive, a 1 Tb external drive, failed after he accidentally
  > simply tipped it over while backing up some data. He had over 14,000
  > pictures in it from travels all around the globe, and now the only way
  > he can get them back is to have a data recovery firm repair the drive in
  > a clean room environment, price about $3000.00.
  >
  > I know its a "geeky" thing to do, putting a nice, big, Terra byte drive
  > in a laptop, but I keep them well under that, around 100 Gbytes is fine
  > for most applications.
  >
  > Ardell Faul
  > Computer Monitor Service Inc.
  > Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
  > 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
  > Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
  > ardell@...
  > 509-891-5188
  >
  >
  > On 6/2/2012 8:45 PM, David wrote:
  > >
  > > I am getting dire warnings from the S.M.A.R.T. disk in my laptop, a
  > > Sony VAIO VPC-F13YFX. I guess that I'm going to have to change my 13
  > > month old drive but I'm wondering whether anyone knows whether I can
  > > put in a larger, faster (both rotational speed and transfer rate) into
  > > the system.
  > >
  > > Basically, will any 2.5" SATA drive work or do I need to limit myself
  > > to 640Gb, 5400rmp, 3.0Gbps drives? I'd like to put in either a 750Gb
  > > or 1Tb drive that spins at 7200rpm, but I have not been able to find
  > > any information about whether I can get away with that.
  > >
  > > Thanks.
  > > David
  > >
  > >
  >

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@...
509-891-5188 

 

I realized that 1Tb would probably be pushing it, but 750Gb at 7200rpm seemed reasonable.

As for why I was interested in such a large disk, I am doing a lot of digital art and photography. My average image size is in the 10s of megabytes and I have quite a few images in the small hundreds of megabytes. The disk that failed was a 640Gb and I have it about 2/3 full so it's not geeky pride that makes me want more space. With disks being so cheap, I was thinking that raising my limit would allow me to keep my files on a single disk for a few more years and avoid the logistical problems of spreading images across multiple drives. (If you're interested in my work, you can visit my online gallery on my web site: www.DavidKessler.biz.)

I do back up regularly although not as often as I used to. (I used to be in the disk caching business, so regular backups were imperative in case a program bug trashed my disk -- even after careful testing on diskettes before allowing any activity on the hard drive. [In the whole product life cycle, I only clobbered my disk once.]) I do a full disk backup monthly and differential backups weekly. I back up to a 2Tb drive and keep at least 2 old months of backups in addition to the current month's backups. I do not have off site storage, but I do have a media fire safe.

In the end, I just went with the same flavor of disk that I was replacing -- 640Gb, 5400rpm. The big problem was restoring my data. I tried using Windows 7 image backup/recovery. The problem was that I could not get the limited version of Windows on the rescue DVD to recognize my external drive. While there were a lot of threads from people having similar problems, I eventually found one where someone was trying to get an external usb3 drive recognized. Someone mentioned the drivers that needed to be added to get the drive recognized. I tried those and they didn't help, but then I plugged my usb3 cable into a usb2 hub. The software recognized my drive and I was able to restore my image after that.

I have never been a fan of Microsoft software, and this experience didn't do anything to make me feel better about them!

Anyhow, thanks for the comments.

David Kessler

http://davidkessler.biz

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
----- Albert Einstein

I have a dell latitude D600 that I just bouht a new keyboard but I can not get
the old keyboard ribbon connector off of the old one to put on the new keyboard.
Where can I go to get a new ribbon keyboard connector? thank you.

I know you guys can't give me an exact price but I resently got a crack in my
laptop screen. I have a warranty but I want to know how much I still have to
pay. It's kinda a new dell xps model and I can't find any information on the
website.

They come off but I forget how it's attached, maybe a latch like other ribbons
have that either flip up or the other type you lift on each side. Not sure who
might have the connector itself.


On Thursday, June 7, 2012 8:46 AM, arctictroll@... wrote:
> I have a dell latitude D600 that I just bouht a new keyboard but I can not get
> the old keyboard ribbon connector off of the old one to put on the new
keyboard.
> Where can I go to get a new ribbon keyboard connector? thank you.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Warranty generally doesn't cover cracks as those usually are caused by damage to
the unit rather than a flaw in material or workmanship. When I worked the
Toshiba depot in Louisville those were sent back unrepaired as it was not a
warranty issue.

Now to get the correct display it's best to open the display housing and look at
the label on back to get the display part number. Most are LG, AU Optronics and
a few others and have a part number associated with them. Once you have that you
can search a number of places such as laptopscreen1.com, ebay, laptopaid.com and
others. Some are new some are used. Generally the panel itself is about $80 to
$125 new depending on the screen size, resolution, etc.

One way you can find the info is to go to support.dell.com and put in your
service tag (not express service number) number into where it asks for it and go
to warranty. One page shows original configuration and you might find the Dell
part number specific to that machine's build. You can search ebay and others
that way as well, without taking the display housing apart.


On Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:47 AM, ahmad.waring <ahmad.waring@...> wrote:
> I know you guys can't give me an exact price but I resently got a crack in my
> laptop screen. I have a warranty but I want to know how much I still have to
> pay. It's kinda a new dell xps model and I can't find any information on the
> website.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@...
509-891-5188 

 

I have a dell latitude D600 that I just bouht a new keyboard but I can not get the old keyboard ribbon connector off of the old one to put on the new keyboard. Where can I go to get a new ribbon keyboard connector? thank you.

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@...
509-891-5188 

 

I have a dell latitude D600 that I just bouht a new keyboard but I can not get the old keyboard ribbon connector off of the old one to put on the new keyboard. Where can I go to get a new ribbon keyboard connector? thank you.
>
>

Hi! My portable hard disk fell from the table to wood floor (<1m), after which
it is not recognized. Testdisk finds the drive but gives only read errors. Any
chance to repair it or did I lose the disk (there's nothing that precious that I
would need a clean room data recovery, mainly backups of media stored in
notebook hard drives)? It's a Buffalo Ministation, one year old and not much
used, I would not think that it would break that easily (my kid dropped his
notebook from the same height and it didn't suffer anything, and it was on when
it fell, contrary to the hard disk that was connected to a turned off notebook).

BR
Pekka Horttanainen

Thank You both very much for your help. I followed Ardell's link (before  I saw
the 2nd reply) and used "Double Drive" and that had my problem solved quick and
easy !

Best,
Steve

Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@...
509-891-5188 

 

Hi! My portable hard disk fell from the table to wood floor (<1m), after which it is not recognized. Testdisk finds the drive but gives only read errors. Any chance to repair it or did I lose the disk (there's nothing that precious that I would need a clean room data recovery, mainly backups of media stored in notebook hard drives)? It's a Buffalo Ministation, one year old and not much used, I would not think that it would break that easily (my kid dropped his notebook from the same height and it didn't suffer anything, and it was on when it fell, contrary to the hard disk that was connected to a turned off notebook).

BR
Pekka Horttanainen

John Peters
Peters` Electronics
257 Marek Lane
Port Lavaca, Tx 77979
peters@...

 

Hi! My portable hard disk fell from the table to wood floor (<1m), after which it is not recognized. Testdisk finds the drive but gives only read errors. Any chance to repair it or did I lose the disk (there's nothing that precious that I would need a clean room data recovery, mainly backups of media stored in notebook hard drives)? It's a Buffalo Ministation, one year old and not much used, I would not think that it would break that easily (my kid dropped his notebook from the same height and it didn't suffer anything, and it was on when it fell, contrary to the hard disk that was connected to a turned off notebook).

BR
Pekka Horttanainen

Hi! I was afraid of that. Do you think there is any chance for a warranty
replacement (2-year warranty), since there is no external damage?

--- In Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com, John Peters <peters@...> wrote:
>
> It`s history. These drives fail often in laptops because they get jarred
> of bumped around. I replace more drives in notebooks  that desktops
> because of this. And this is most likely the same kind of drive.
>
> John Peters
> Peters` Electronics
> 257 Marek Lane
> Port Lavaca, Tx 77979
> peters@...
>
>
> On 6/9/2012 5:44 PM, Pekka Horttanainen wrote:
> >
> > Hi! My portable hard disk fell from the table to wood floor (<1m),
> > after which it is not recognized. Testdisk finds the drive but gives
> > only read errors. Any chance to repair it or did I lose the disk
> > (there's nothing that precious that I would need a clean room data
> > recovery, mainly backups of media stored in notebook hard drives)?
> > It's a Buffalo Ministation, one year old and not much used, I would
> > not think that it would break that easily (my kid dropped his notebook
> > from the same height and it didn't suffer anything, and it was on when
> > it fell, contrary to the hard disk that was connected to a turned off
> > notebook).
> >
> > BR
> > Pekka Horttanainen
> >
> >
>

John Peters
Peters` Electronics
257 Marek Lane
Port Lavaca, Tx 77979
peters@...

 

Hi! I was afraid of that. Do you think there is any chance for a warranty replacement (2-year warranty), since there is no external damage?

--- In Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com, John Peters <peters@...> wrote:
>
> It`s history. These drives fail often in laptops because they get jarred
> of bumped around. I replace more drives in notebooks that desktops
> because of this. And this is most likely the same kind of drive.
>
> John Peters
> Peters` Electronics
> 257 Marek Lane
> Port Lavaca, Tx 77979
> peters@...
>
>
> On 6/9/2012 5:44 PM, Pekka Horttanainen wrote:
> >
> > Hi! My portable hard disk fell from the table to wood floor (<1m),
> > after which it is not recognized. Testdisk finds the drive but gives
> > only read errors. Any chance to repair it or did I lose the disk
> > (there's nothing that precious that I would need a clean room data
> > recovery, mainly backups of media stored in notebook hard drives)?
> > It's a Buffalo Ministation, one year old and not much used, I would
> > not think that it would break that easily (my kid dropped his notebook
> > from the same height and it didn't suffer anything, and it was on when
> > it fell, contrary to the hard disk that was connected to a turned off
> > notebook).
> >
> > BR
> > Pekka Horttanainen
> >
> >
>

That's good and bad news. Bad because the failures are not that uncommon... Just
hoping SSD drives' prices go down soon...

BR Pekka

--- In Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com, John Peters <peters@...> wrote:
>
> Yes I sent one in like that and got a free one.
>
> John Peters
> Peters` Electronics
> 257 Marek Lane
> Port Lavaca, Tx 77979
> peters@...
>
>
> On 6/12/2012 1:29 PM, Pekka Horttanainen wrote:
> >
> > Hi! I was afraid of that. Do you think there is any chance for a
> > warranty replacement (2-year warranty), since there is no external
> > damage?
> >
> > --- In Laptop_Repair@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:Laptop_Repair%40yahoogroups.com>, John Peters <peters@> wrote:
> > >
> > > It`s history. These drives fail often in laptops because they get
> > jarred
> > > of bumped around. I replace more drives in notebooks that desktops
> > > because of this. And this is most likely the same kind of drive.
> > >
> > > John Peters
> > > Peters` Electronics
> > > 257 Marek Lane
> > > Port Lavaca, Tx 77979
> > > peters@
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/9/2012 5:44 PM, Pekka Horttanainen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi! My portable hard disk fell from the table to wood floor (<1m),
> > > > after which it is not recognized. Testdisk finds the drive but gives
> > > > only read errors. Any chance to repair it or did I lose the disk
> > > > (there's nothing that precious that I would need a clean room data
> > > > recovery, mainly backups of media stored in notebook hard drives)?
> > > > It's a Buffalo Ministation, one year old and not much used, I would
> > > > not think that it would break that easily (my kid dropped his
> > notebook
> > > > from the same height and it didn't suffer anything, and it was on
> > when
> > > > it fell, contrary to the hard disk that was connected to a turned off
> > > > notebook).
> > > >
> > > > BR
> > > > Pekka Horttanainen
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

A VERY basic question -- I have rescued a small netbook that has only 8-GB of memory on an SSD.  It has a 900MHz processor and 0.99-GB of RAM.
 
It is a bit slow.  If I double the RAM will this guarantee faster screen action??
 
Thanks,
 
   RA