mikey14

Hi Its ok ive managed to get it working now, was the last driver out of all the ones i downloaded which done the trick! With the old hdd it shows in device manager but no where else on the computer, i will assume this is dead and ebsure I back up in the future! Thanks for your interest guys

Hi all Ive downloaded various drivers and installed LAN, touchpad ( still not working properly) and vga graphics ones succesfully, however am struggling with wlan. Can anyone guide me please? It seem to install the wlan atheros one however does not do anything really! In device manager ive got exlamation mark next to Network Controller and PCI Simple Communicationd Controller

wow! thats quite a long list of drivers which ones do I need!? Also could I download them on another computer and then burn onto dvd and install them in the laptop? If yes could you tell me how, I have imgburn on another computer what I used to burn the windows recovery disk iso image with, but i am unsure if i can use it to do this. Thanks man

also with regards to me retriving data from the old hdd..... does this mean the drive is dead as windows fails to load drivers for it? or do i need to find and install drivers for it manualy?

Hi the make and model of the laptop; samsung np-rv511 a07uk its running on windows home premium x64. thanks for your help so far

Ok heres where im at now. Changed the hdd and have got windows up and running. Ive placed the old hdd in an external case and connected to the laptop, it detects the connection an attempts to install drivers however fails in doing so.. I currently cannot connect to the internet either due to drivers being required for the wireless card... Once I connect to the internet would this problem with the external connection be resolved? will windows search and install the required drivers automaticaly from the internet? or does this mean hdd is dead? Also the problem with the touchpad is still present.

Hello I burned the image from this link http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-58997.iso. Is there no way to retrieve data from the hdd? Also could you advise how to get my laptop up and running again, ive already purchased another hdd (WD Scorpio blue 500gb) which has arrived today, im ok installing it into the laptop but what steps should I take after i.e when ready to power it up? Also any suggestions with regards to the damn touchpad/ external mouse problem would be appreciated! Thanks

Hi I purchased this laptop about 18 months ago. It started developing problems about six months ago with the touchpad not working/responding appropriatly to gestures, and on other occasions when watching movies, typing or whatever activating itself. I tried re installing drivers checked for any update to the drivers etc but the problem remained. I used an external mouse for a while after manualy disabling the touchpad from mouse settings and seemed to be ok, however the same problem started occuring with the external mouse about a few days ago while I was doing some word processing and in a fit of rage I manualy shut the xomputer from the power button as it had become totaly unresponsive. Stupid, maybe, I know. When I powered the laptop back up it would not boot into windows and I was faced with a black screen saying windows is loading files on near the bottom and pogress bar below the message, which when full went back to empty and started refilling again, on continuoes loop. I switched off from the power button after about half hour of the above and on start up selected F4 samsung recovery console option from where I attempted a Complete System restore, however during the process about half way through a error appeared saying "error writing to disk". I tried re attempting 4-5 times each time getting the same message. I then burned a windows installation cd from iso image, booted up the dvd and ran chkdsk /r command and left it running overnight, it was at 11% when I hit the sack. When I woke up it was still at 11% and thinking it had frozen I switched off and on again from the power button. HOWEVER on power up there is a clicking noise from the hdd and it will not boot with the cd, gets stuck on starting windows screen. PLEASE HELP!!