Acer is selling a 11.6 Laptop with a 32GB SSD and a slow processor
benchmark 902. Why do people buy these laptops with only 32GB of
storage. I was thinking of getting one just for e-mail. What else
are they good for. Would a benchmark of 902 be too slow for e-mail?
It runs Win 10 with just 2GB of memory.
I have a Lenovo 10.1 S10 e Type 4187-2NU The Laptop has a slow processor, 2.5GB memory, 160 GB Hard drive. Years ago
I took off Win XP and installed Win 7 prof. The computer runs so slow on Yahoo I feel like throwing out the window.
On second thought if I format the Hard drive again and reinstall win 7 prof. and just Sea monkey for e-mail and a word
processor but nothing else the that speed thing up. I will have to attach an optical cd player by usb and reinstall win 7 prof.
How do I be sure the computer will boot the the external optical drive. What command do I use for format the current
hard drive? I will also install Avast and Malwarebytes.
Reinstalling Win7 on that system probably won't speed it up a whole lot, unless you have tons of apps running on it now. If you could replace the hard drive with an SSD, that would speed things up a lot.
Gparted, DBAN are a couple ways you can wipe the drive, but Midknyte gave you the easy way to do it.
I remove the partition, remake it and windows does the reformatting during the install.
I was able to set the bios to boot to the CD drive. I put in the Win 7 CD
and started the computer. It gave be a choice so I booted to the CD.
I was told the Hard Drive would be formatted and I would loose all my files.
Also it showed 2 partitions. I picked the big one. After Win 7 Prof was
installed I was surprised to find all my files in Windows Explorer in tact.
I am not sure what happened but the computer runs a little faster but
would be better with a clean install. I am going to do it over again but
how can I make sure the entire Hard Drive is formatted? Is there a
command I can use to format the entire Hard Drive? or what else can
I do.
You didn't follow the instructions carefully. Please look at the link I posted in post #10.
You need to choose CUSTOM install (step 9), Drive options advanced (step 10), Delete the existing Windows partition (step 11), Confirm (step 12), Repeat for the other partition (steps 13 and 14).