Since putting an hitachi 250 gig hard drive in to my comp it is causing all sorts of probs! comp wont start up hangs. next time starts up perfectly and after a while in windows get get blue screen says windows had to be shut down due to conlict of new hardware????

Sounds like a disk error and it cant read the start of the drive. If it still detects it you might be able to repair it with a partition recovery or partition repair tool available online.

If the starter is turning there is no need to try to short past the solenoid. It shouldn't harm the computer to do so, but all that does is make the starter turn, which it is apparently doing anyway.

go to a computer shop and buy a kingston solid state hard drive-250 gig for around $65.00 aud
next obtain a copy of win 7 with a registrable licence code and insert it in a cd drive
turn the computer on and hold down the delete key until the bios screen appears
move to boot tab
select cd as first boot device , yes and hit the esc key
turn off the computer then restart it
the bios direct will activate the cd and load the program into the hard drive and you are up and running
when finished , go back to switch off and do the bios start again and this time set the first boot back to hard drive
A 250 gig sshd is equal to 500 gig disc type and will not fail as there are no moving parts

Go to the power settings and set it to never turn off hard drive...the tick tick noise are the read and write heads working (that's what writes information on the hard drive) which is perfectly normal with an older hard drive....the hang is probably a virus or needs a good cleaning...I recommend advanced system care as a program to clean your hard drive and fix the errors....uninstall any and all programs not needed or unused

hi nitind

• It's not big problem
• re-boot ur system
• you r telling you r upgrade your pc,so it supports windows7 too
• put a new copy of windows 7 original
• if not means disable the windows update after installing ...
• before the problem may arise due to corruption of files or password is not a valid one ..
• so put a fresh copy of windows in which drive already you have os...
• other drive data must be safe...
• keep antivirus active this must be helpful for your pc ...

Connect the Hitachi
Click Start
Right-mouse click My Computer
Click Manage
Click Storage
Click Disk Management
Right-mouse click the icon for the Hitachi
Click Format
Assign a drive-letter

Done.

make sure the laptop will handle a drive bigger than 130 gig. if not make two partitions when you set it up, bios wont see it but usually windows will. also, sometimes ive found that if i delete the partition a few times it eventually reads right. dont know why but have done it that way several times. you can also download a diskmanager program from thier website which makes an overlay if your bios wont support a 250.

Set up your old drive as a slave and copy the data. Good luck.

Are you surfing the internet a lot?  You may be getting a lot of temporary files.  Here is something to try.  In internet explorer go to tools / internet options / delete cookies, delete files (all offline contect) and clear history.  This should help some.  You are always going to go down in space.  Windows updates automatically on a regular basis.  This will cause a decrease in available hard drive space.

sounds like hd is getting hot via firewire try and use the usb lead if same problem then get your files off quick and repace drive any thing above 80 gig will get hot in use that's why I use harddrive coolers on my large 300gig 400gig internal and only use my 250 gigs and 160 gig only when i need the files off they are turned off all time