Posted: 11/8/2008 4:08:37 PM EDT
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Normally I am computer savvy but am starting to forget myself...
I have a gateway model GT5032. The hard drive crapped out on me so I decided to buy a new hard drive.. I insert the Gateway Recovery Disc and it loaded windows.. No drives for the internal sound card. I uninstall the windows and try to do a Full windows recovery and now the screen is froze on the Gateway ... please wait screen for he last 30 mins... what I am I doing wrong..... |
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dude, you appear to be over your head.
Install windows (which you may have done..then removed it??? lol) then: go to the gateway site and download the drivers. here http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn¶m=5878 get both the motherboard drivers, Video drivers, Realtek soundcard drivers, LAN drivers. Install them in that order. |
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dude, you appear to be over your head. Install windows (which you may have done..then removed it??? lol) then: go to the gateway site and download the drivers. here http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn¶m=5878 get both the motherboard drivers, Video drivers, Realtek soundcard drivers, LAN drivers. Install them in that order. +1 |
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dude, you appear to be over your head. Install windows (which you may have done..then removed it??? lol) then: go to the gateway site and download the drivers. here http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?st=pn¶m=5878 get both the motherboard drivers, Video drivers, Realtek soundcard drivers, LAN drivers. Install them in that order. +1 I just did this Saturday, i don't think the Gateway recovery CD is a substitute for "Installing Windows"... My Gateway disc screwed up in every way I tried it, I borrowwed a friends XP home install CD...started right up and worked. (The Gateway CD may rely on a portion of the HD that might be damaged? I dunno one of you experts can chime in on that one) OP, see if you can borrow someone's "real" Windows CD or "Recovery Disc" This may be the only problem...or get via torrent on another computer as well, I think the license is "in or on" your machine, so its not really piracy...but I am no expert. |
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Thank you for everyone input this is what I ended up doing....
Since I could access the hard drive with an external hard drive & my laptop, I went in and manually deleted the user partition and left the factory one intact. Then I installed the hdd back into the original PC used the recovery disk & I guess the factory partition kicked and unloaded all the drivers I needed. I guess the true lesson is.. I have to either keep this hdd as long as I keep this machine or.. figure a way to Ghost the hdd and reply it to the new drive.... Thanks again... J |