Recent content by Doom2112

I didn't know a new drive had partitions. I thought you had to create them yourself.

I put the 1TB spinner in and it wasn't detected. Then I tried an SSD that I had that showed up but was the wrong format I guess. Windows was not in Legacy mode. It was UEFI. I formatted the SSD. I didn't see an option to reinitialize it as a GPT. I believe the flash drive was capable of booting...

Will do. Thanks for the help.

It was sold by a third party. I haven't tried it in another machine. She doesn't care how fast it is. If it was mine I would have gotten an SSD.

I took it out a few times and it wasn't seen. I got it from Amazon.

I did and it doesn't show up. I did put in the drive from an old computer. It works but I'd rather use the new drive I bought. The old one is slow. Not sure if the new one would be any faster.

I have an Acer Aspire 3 laptop. The drive died after two years. I bought Seagate Barracuda 1TB HD. 6Gb/s. I have the Windows 10 media creation tool on a flash drive. When I power the laptop it only shows the flash drive and not the HD. I don't know why the new drive is not being recognized or...

Thanks to all who replied. I just downloaded Windows creation tool. Looking for a drive now.

How do I restore the OS without a disc? I don't think it came a recovery disc.

I do. I thought it was an Acer and not an HP. Her last one was an Acer and lasted a few years. She doesn't use it that much.

It seems like if you wait a while it will power on. But it just goes to the error screen. If I could figure out which button to press while it is powering up, I could get to the BIOS. Not sure if there was anything else I could do.

Hi, My mother was playing a game on Facebook like she does every day. The screen blinked and she got the error. I told her to hold the power button until it went off. When she tried to turn it on it wouldn't go on. The next day tried it again and it went on. I told her to press ESC while it...