Category: DIY

Well, I needed to take a break yesterday as it took all day to install the new hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 – so today I am revisiting and I am currently downloading 114 updates for windows…. At the same time I...

Well, it’s obvious to see that I am a glorified geek as you look around the room here…you see my laptop loading in the contents of the backup drive on the floor as my computer to the left hand side is now loaded...

Well, here’s the first step, just inserted the windows 7 DVD, and am booting from the discount. Windows is loading and beginning to install…. Looking good – mouse and keyboard working so drivers working so...

Well, my daughters got in a bit of a tizzy, and now I’m confused as to which hard drive is which. So now to verify so I don’t lose 1 terabyte of data. Connecting the new drive….

Well not too promising so far. I put the hard drive into the casing,  plugged it into my laptop,  and the hard drive is not registering files at all. Looks like a complete hard drive failure. Normally, at this stage, I would not...

Well that was the easy part. Now to put the cap on and to download the drivers in order to do the reinstallation of windows 7 onto the new hard drive (after I put in the new hard drive of course).

Well it’s been a few days of trial and error, but it seems that my hard drive has died in my computer and I must reinstall windows 7 onto a brand new hard drive. I thought I would write a series of blog posts while I do...