I plan on using this as my main HD in my Q9450 computer, with a large partition for data. Someone mentioned that Crystal Disk Info could have alerted me of this HD showing Caution. I would like to...

Well Bree you did it again. The format method you mentioned worked perfectly. Crystal Info now shows the HD as Good! Yaaah!

Hey Bree, I did a quick format, then deleted the volume and did another quick format. The HD also has a small system partition then the main large partition and then 2 recovery partitions and none of...

The pre-registered giveaway expired. So should I just use solidigm to sanitize the drive instead? This is not an SSD HD it's regular SATA. I'm not sure Hard Disk Sentinel will offer any additional...

I'm not sure what the unused spare nand blocks are. I don't see it listed in Crystal Info I already got the data off the drive and added it to my wife's new computer. So I can reformat it and zero it...

I got a new computer for my wife, a Lenovo All in one. It's a big step up for her with the increased speed of the SSD drive and newer electronics.

I'm now seeing if I can resurrect the 1TB SATA HD...

I also tried replacing the Bios battery to no avail. Since it looks like it's something on the motherboard, we will likely buy another HP for $399.

I may try one last ditch effort of shorting out...

The power supply didn't work, so I sent it back. I've had a lot of computers, but none were HP, Dell, etc. They were all custom made. So I'm wondering if HP does something strange to the HD that...

It's more than the HD not booting. There is no power, no fan, no beeping, blank screen

I replaced the HD and used an image from many months ago and it still has the same problem. A repair guy (not with HP) on the HP forum felt like it was definitely the power supply. I hope to get it...

Yes it looks like a laptop brick TPC-LA57
503 - Service Unavailable Error

Here's the computer
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04815115

Fortunately, I did make a Macrium image file many months ago and she doesn't tend to install programs or do anything fancy. Mostly she uses it for browsing, checking her emails and her bank. She...

Is it possible this HD is causing this no boot, blank screen problem? Or maybe the bad power supply messed up this HD. Any thoughts?

My wife's HP desktop computer won't boot, has blank screen, yet there's a little light showing up near the cord into the motherboard. That's all. I ordered a new power supply.

I put it's 1TB HD...

Yes that link is the computer. So it looks like that external small rectangular box is the power supply and charger and it's not in the computer. Is that what you think?

My wife has an HP Pavilion all in one model 22. All of a sudden, it won't boot. I unplugged everything and have it taken apart where I can see the motherboard. When plugged in, there's a blank...

I went to MS and they said the same thing, I can only use the 8.1 Pro license on the present main computer I'm using, not on the laptop. So I tried Teamviewer unattended and man it works perfectly....

Teamviewer wants a new password everytime you connect. I don't think I can get it to work like Remote Desktop. AnyDesk I'd need to install it on all 4 of my computers, not sure if the free version...

Yes except that won't solve my problem. I need Remote Desktop, only available using Pro. If I do a clean install of Win 10 Home can I use my other key from Win 8 Pro to update it to Pro?

I do have the windows 10 iso. DuckDuckGo link seems to be a browser. I see other key grabbers that I can use to get the digital key from the laptop.

So the digital key on the laptop has Win 10...

I do have a digital license under Activation on my main computer and also on this 16 year old Q9 computer which had Win 7 Pro updating to Win 10 Pro. I made a Win 10 CD when I updated years ago and...

Since I really need to do a clean install on this laptop anyway and I do have a Product key for Win 8 Pro, could I install Win 8? Or will MS not let me? It seems if I can install it, I can then...

I found my product key it was for Win 8 Pro upgrade for $99 back in 2015. When Win 10 came out they encouraged us all to upgrade for free, which I did. Win 8 Pro to Win 10 Pro. I tried that product...

Can I then use both computers? My main computer is Win 10 Pro and MS wouldn't let me upgrade it to Win 11, which actually I see no benefit of doing anyway

My laptop has Win 11 home and remote desktop is only available for win 11 pro which the upgrade is $99. It said something like I could use the activation from my Win 10 Pro, which I have on my...