Recent content by Blackarachnia

I have this Gateway P-7811FX that had Vista on it. I was trying to do a factory restore before I install Windos 7 when it began asking me for a HDD password. Google search told me I'd have to send the laptop to Gateway to get that unlocked... for a fee. So I ordered a new hard drive and want...

Hello Mike, I really appreciate taking the time and writing out all those suggestions -I hadn't heard of Classicshell or the other link that you provided. I returned it to Best Buy and exchanged it for this: Asus 17.3" Refurbished Laptop 12GB Memory 1.5TB Hard Drive G75VW-DS71 - Best Buy It...

this is a better solution I came up with...though I can't seem to do a factory restore: return G75VX to Best Buy & order G75VW (refurbished) from their website! thanks for all your help, time, and concern!

Properties Details tab is useless, there's a drop down screen and the next section, under Value it states: ethernet controller. I really wasn't interested in a dual boot... I found some instructions online about creating a partition and hoped that would had helped. I really want nothing to...

Thank you.....but that's not what I was hoping to hear :(

I'm not sure if I did anything right! ASUS - G75VX I hated the Windows 8, created a partition and installed Windows 7 64bit Home -seems like Window 8 has disappeared (no big loss) now I've stumbled all day trying to find out what to do to gain access to the network. I have yellow exclamation...