depends on the PC as to whether you can 'pop it in'. This is more of a Maddingo question.

This blog title needs to be changed to "Something only Maddingo would know"

well, we took it out easily, so hopefully it will be just as easy to put a new one in! where the mad @

hi julia!

hi haya! i hope you had a good weekend :)

I did! I wish I could have gone to Milwaukee though. How did it go?

yes. yes you can. hard drives shouldn't have drivers or anything.

just make sure the connection type is correct

why is the hard drive dead on a new laptop, julia? riddle me this??
;)

i know nothing about this. but hi!

it's not suuuper new. one year old. but my sister owned it for that year and she has the magic touch of never installing security updates on it and having it get totally demolished by viruses :p

it went well, haya! it was pretty laid back. then we went to steve's, played drunken sorry, and ate gyros.

hi ben!

thank you BRIAN! and does $40 seem reasonable for a new hd?

OMFG GYROS!! I hope they were from Oakland Gyros. Seriously. Best gyros I have ever had, ever.

how big is it?

oh man! no, not oakland gyros, though steve was also proclaiming those were good. we walked to this one place called "grecian delight". it was alright... though i only had fried eggplant sticks. which hardly had eggplant. so it was like fried friedness. it made me pass out.

brian- 120gb

Eas;ldkfjasd;lfkjas;dlj Oakland Gyros is one of my favorite childhood memories. Next time. Get one. Do it.

yup, that's a good price for that size

i shall!!!! i don't think oakland gyros was too far, esp since steve lives by oakland, but it was slightly too far to walk.

as brian said, you can certainly swap in a new harddrive. all you have to do is make sure it's the right type of harddrive. if it's a laptop, then it's a 2.5" harddrive, and if it's a year old, it's almost guaranteed to be a SATA connector.

if you're in a super big hurry, go to your local computer supplies store (if there's an option better than Best Buy, go there). but if you have a few days to wait, i HIGHLY recommend www.newegg.com for almost all computer part purchases.


once you swap in the new harddrive, you will have to reload your OS onto it. you strike me as a mac person, and so if you had your old OS backed using Time Machine, restoring it to your new harddrive is a breeze. you simply have to partition the new harddrive (there's just a button to do that) and then restore

cool beens

mmnow I want a gyro. good job, Julia.

yeah, we definitely have a few days! and i've actually purchased stuff from newegg before. it's a good place. i had forgotten about it!

yeah i'm a mac person, but i don't think that os stuff is an issue here. my sister pretty much gave us this laptop because she didn't want to figure it out, so we're just wiping it clean. and we have a copy of windows 7 to install on it. it will be cool if we got it working! but for now, it won't install anything, and makes weird clicking sounds everytime it tries to access the hard drive.

oh, i forgot the title of this blog is "windows people", so ignore the last part about mac....

if your lappy came with a restore disc from the manufacturer, great. otherwise, you'll probably have to install a few drivers once you get the OS on there, but those should all be downloadable from the manufacturer's website

mwa ha ha!

yesplz

oh man. i didn't want a gyro until i saw that picture. i love cucumber sauce ;_;

I haven't ate anything today. That gyro looks like the best idea, ever.

i too love cucumber sauce, which has always boggled me, 'cause in general i hate cucumbers.

though i love pickles.

my brain hurts itself.

why am i not in bed yet?

i used to hate cucumbers, but now i am a believer. YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE!

Oh man, I love cucumbers. they taste like cold. Its amazing.

lol @ taste like cold. it's true!

oooh. so... is there any limit to how big laptop harddrives can be? 320 gb in a laptop would be awesome

i'm pretty sure there is some fact that talks about how the inside of cucumbers are some degrees colder than the temperature of the room. pretty sure.

no, other than the fact that they just don't really make 2.5" drives in sizes bigger than 500gigs... do you want a 500gig one? if so, go with this which is $89.99 + free s/h..... technically one company makes a 640gig, but the price-per-gig is ridiculous

btw, you can easily swap in a newer, bigger harddrive into your mac lappy you assuredly have laying around, too. margo's had a 80gig by default, so i swapped in a 320gig, used time machine to restore her OS, and it was like nothing ever happened but magically more room. gave her 4gigs of ram, too. both super easy to do. put her old 80gig in an external enclosure, and now she has a little 80gig portable just for fun

thank you for your help kevin!!! we are probably just going to go with a 320 gb.

and i didn't realize it'd be that easy to swap in a bigger hard drive for a macbook. we have an older model from 2007. i don't think it has time machine. that'd be cool though. we always have to delete files on it.

soooo new question:

i haven't used a pc in forever and have forgotten how to properly protect it against viruses. are they any recommended free virus software things i can download for it?

free flu shots
free bird flu shots
and
free pig flu shots

get em all or your PCs toast

im late to this blog

now i want oakland gyros

i demand you come back solely for an oakland gyros trip

yes yes and yes

i'll give the comp a gyro shot too

Steve, may I attend Oakland Gyros parties tambien?

Next time I go to Milwaukee I will demand that my sister take me there.

of course haya

after we left the show we spent the longest time outside my car contemplating whether or not to go to Oakland... then we didnt.

grecian delight was the biggest disappointment this side of the mississippi.

annie ended up not eating the gyro i brought back because it was so subpar

there's a lot of free anti virus stuff julia
i don't know of any bc i steer clear of PCs at home

YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE TO OAKLAND. Always go to Oakland. always.

*sigh* they remind me of being a little kid and going to Milwaukee for my summers. they also remind me of delicious.

yeah, but by the time it was gyros time, i was much too drunkified for driving, and the walk is a bit far

plus, if we'd have gone right away julia wouldve hated me for experiencing it without her

this shows how unselfish i am

coo. i can do some research if i don't get any suggestions. i'm just afraid of downloading some free software that ends up being a virus in itself!

i'm glad i didn't get a gyro at that place. only fried fried.

my folks got an email the other night
and when the comp asked if they wanted some software to scan the attachment
their comp got infected
now theres puss in their harddrive :(

Steve is a Good Man (tm)

Julia, lets get Gyros this weekend. Or imagine that we are.

oh nooo! you know, i never even realize how horrible viruses can be, to the extent that they can destroy a harddrive.

oh man haya! i will imagine we are. perhaps i will draw a picture of us eating gyros. i will be in appleton. perhaps i will have to find a gyro place there.

the best free virus scanner is AVG. it's what i used when i had windows.

brian to the rescue! thank you