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Hi,

I`m an ICT Techy working in a special needs nottinghamshire school, A teacher bought in her sons laptop saying Windows wouldn't load. It was a Packard Bell (It pains me to say that name too!!!) MIT-DRAG-D looked quite a sweeeet machine tried to restore windows off a genuine restore disk and would, it would either come up with a load of read errors and just lock at first I thought it was the CD and it was scratched, cleaned the CD, same results, so then decided to run scan disk on it, got to 4% and it had found 79 bad sectors then it just seemed to lock the pc up, so i`m looking at a new hard disk for it. Iv got no issues installing it however I am not totally certain I can just buy any old hard disk and shove it in. My previous experience with packard bell is with their PC's the apply a "tatoo" to the BIOS chip which ties that PC to genuine original packard bell restore disk, if you try and use a copy, or any other windows disk it crashes at 3/4 of the way through installing. I don't want to buy a new hard disk for this teacher then find out Packard Bell have stuck something on the original disk to prevent you from putting in any new hard disk.
????: EduGeek.net Forums http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/27266-packard-bell-easy-note-laptop-harddrive-issue.html

anyone had any experience of these any problems???