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Hi, I have an Acer laptop that is locking up after several days. throughout the past year I’ve reinstalled windows(10) and its fluid but then it will eventually slow to a crawl – sometimes never reaching the desktop after sign in because of what reason i don’t know – here are the facts: i did damage the original harddrive from a drop 2 years ago but replaced it with an old toshiba laptop battery – after a repair guy inspected it he said that year it was all that was wrong with it. The question: is it my hard drive that’s faulty or am I doomed to shell out money i don’t have for a whole nother computer? any advice is appreciated guys

Conversation 3 comments

  • seapea

    18 April, 2018 - 12:15 pm

    <p>get a Samsung 850 SSD kit that includes the cable and software to migrate the OS from your present harddrive.</p><p><br></p>

  • offTheRecord

    18 April, 2018 - 12:36 pm

    <p>"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">replaced it with an old toshiba laptop battery"</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Do you mean an old laptop hard drive? If so, as suggested, buy a cheap 128 GB or 256 GB SSD and give that a try. It'll probably be noticeably faster than an old spinning HDD.</span></p>

  • jimchamplin

    Premium Member
    18 April, 2018 - 2:36 pm

    <p>Third for getting an SSD. You'll love the difference.</p>

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