Hi all
I have Compaq Presario F500. I have read all the problams with this laptop about overheating and the wireless cutting out and as it is about 4 years old my laptop is now suffering the same.
My problem is that I have recently swapped out the 80gig Toshiba HDD that came with the laptop with a bigger 320gig Seagate that I have removed from an Iomega external casing. I have a fresh install of Windows 7 and now my laptop is agonisingly and frustratingly slow and unresponsive. It is practically unusable.
I have tried this previously with another HDD about 2 years ago with the exact same results (coincidentally it was also a 320gig HDD but I can't remember the make/model). At the time I had actually dropped the HDD prior to installing it in my laptop and put it's poor performance down to being damaged but now I am experiencing the same results.
Has anybody else experienced any similar problems? Weather on a Compaq or any other make of laptop? Is this a case of my laptop rejecting the new HDD? Is it some kind of settings in Windows 7 perhaps?
Please help me as I am at my wits end with this, it just does not make sense to me that my laptop refuses to be upgraded?!?!?!
I have Compaq Presario F500. I have read all the problams with this laptop about overheating and the wireless cutting out and as it is about 4 years old my laptop is now suffering the same.
My problem is that I have recently swapped out the 80gig Toshiba HDD that came with the laptop with a bigger 320gig Seagate that I have removed from an Iomega external casing. I have a fresh install of Windows 7 and now my laptop is agonisingly and frustratingly slow and unresponsive. It is practically unusable.
I have tried this previously with another HDD about 2 years ago with the exact same results (coincidentally it was also a 320gig HDD but I can't remember the make/model). At the time I had actually dropped the HDD prior to installing it in my laptop and put it's poor performance down to being damaged but now I am experiencing the same results.
Has anybody else experienced any similar problems? Weather on a Compaq or any other make of laptop? Is this a case of my laptop rejecting the new HDD? Is it some kind of settings in Windows 7 perhaps?
Please help me as I am at my wits end with this, it just does not make sense to me that my laptop refuses to be upgraded?!?!?!