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This powerbook g4 laptop was brought in by the client because there was a question mark symbol flashing on the desktop after computer was turned on. It is normal occurrence on a macbook laptops especially when there is a problem with a hard drive inside the laptop. flashing question mark indicates computer doesn’t know what or where to boot from. but many times when laptop hard drive crashes, one must still diagnose it for sure. however in our case we did not have to do hard drive diagnosis, because this powerbook g4 hard drive was making a very specific clicking noise. the kind of clicking sound which is very familiar to anyone who has dealt with computers for a longer time and had some failing hard drives.
so this repair was quite simple on first hand and had to be completed overnight in the perfect world. However we don’t live in one, so upon taking it apart, we realized that this powerbook G4 was still using the old IDE type of connection. And if you were to look for one with any major retailers who sell hard drives, like best buy, frys electronics, staples, etc, you will find out they don’t carry these anymore, because everyone has shifted to a SATA interface hard drives nowadays. So we had to order one online and it took few days to get it.
Another word of caution if you try to change a hard drive on a powerbook g4 yourself. Be prepared to find your original powerbook g4 operating system disks mac os 10.4 (tiger). because it is very sensitive to disks that were burned and will not take all of them. Once you have the disk you insert it into a dvd drive, restart the computer and after you hear the chime you hold down the “c” key on the keyboard and that will order powerbook g4 to boot from the disc. then just follow directions and your operating system will be installed almost automatically.
so here you are: overnight pc repair fixes not only pcs but also mac computers from apple. call us at 877-938-8777 with your computer problem and we will most likely help you fix it or point you in the right direction if we can not help you ourselves!
The owner of this Dell E1505 laptop with 120GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM running windows xp, was shocked to find out her hard drive has crashed on her.
In fact she had called few weeks ago to talk about her hard drive possibly going bad, because it was getting some bad sectors. Upon our encouragement to take care of this issue NOW, she did not. Unfortunately this is what most people do. they let their failing hard drives go too long, sometimes even without backing up their precious data and then when it finally fails they get scared that their data might be lost beyond recovery.
And sometimes it is. Hard drive crash in many different ways and in some cases it is beyond our capability to extract things when windows will no longer load on it.
In this case however everything worked out nicely. although windows xp wasn’t loading properly, we did not have a lot of difficulties extracting the data from the hard drive, all the documents and pictures on it were safe.
For laptop repair we performed we added new Seagate 500GB hard drive, installed fresh copy of windows xp and transferred personal files over. Customer was happy and is enjoying her refreshed laptop!
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This Sony Vaio Vgn nw150j laptop with 4GB of RAM, intel i3 processor, 320GB hard drive, windows 7 64-bit operating system is definitely not a bad toy to have around the house.
until something weird started happening. The customer was in complete confusion, because as he claims laptop was starting to act strange, becoming slow at some points and it wouldn’t let him restore the operating system.
it looked completely bizarre to the untrained eye. but not the the professionals like us.
After running some tests, we couldn’t still diagnose the problem 100% because the software was showing all components were running perfectly. But if you can trick the software, it doesn’t mean you can trick the human mind. After starting to rewrite operating system on this sony vaio vgn-nw150j laptop, our technician has noticed right away, that it takes slightly longer to go through first couple of screens of the menu. Which was totally intuitive and he couldn’t explain it, but he just somehow knew it.
That forced us to run some more intensive tests and we quickly determined that the hard drive in this laptop was not functioning properly. it had too many bad sectors and was not writing properly.
So the customer just ran to fry’s electronics, which is literally 5 minutes away from us, picked up a new hard drive and was out on his way with a smoothly running machine in hand! congratulations! he also left us a great review on yelp.com his name is Jacy check it out by clicking this link. Thanks Jacy for the kind words and your business!
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Hard drive crashes are pretty common occurrence, we fix at least a couple a week. Everyone usually asks what causes hard drive crash and how you can fix it or prevent it. But unfortunately no such answer exists. Hard drives are very fragile and very unpredictable. Best precaution is of course to test it every now and then for bad sectors so at least you catch it as it starts to fail and not when its already finished and is unreadable.
This case of sony vaio vgn cr120 was a perfect example of when computer starts showing first signs of failing hard drive. When you get bad sectors on a hard drive, they become unreadable, therefore if you have an operating system file in that place which is needed to start windows for example you will not be able to do so. its like when you listen to a scratch cd and the song is playing and suddenly it skips because it can not read certain spot and you don’t hear the sound there we only hear that cd skipped.
This client has brought their computer and it was still manageable. it was running slow and would freeze up occasionally. So we decided to do system restore at first and as we were backing up the files, our operating system (Ubuntu 9) did a hard drive test automatically and showed that there are 28 bad sectors on this disk. It is not a lot of bad sectors and they could be ignored for a while, but not when you have a bunch of files that are important to you on the disk. Because bad sectors have a tendency to spread and increase in number and from our experience it was only a matter of time until this hard drive would start failing completely.
We informed a customer of the problem immediately and he agreed to upgrade to a 500gb hard drive (his old one was 160gb). We performed then system restore and his computer is ready to go. with 2 gigs of RAM and a intel core duo processor expected to run for another 2-3 years flawlessly 
This job was delivered in less than 24 hours like all the other computer repair jobs at overnightpcrepair.com. The only time it takes longer is when we need to ship the parts for your laptop or desktop from our suppliers. If parts are available locally any repair will take no longer than 24 hours guaranteed! or your computer is repaired FREE!
Call us now at 877-938-8777 overnight pc repair is fastest computer shop currently in Los Angeles and Chicago Areas! Cheers!