samsung r50 life story
my 2 month old laptop. the hdd was a free upgrade from 60gig to 80gig when i bought it.
i think they gave me one that was problematic. bloody samsung. yes, samsung.
after about a week plus of using it, the performance became 'skippy'. couldn't be
my ram, i had 1gig. i checked the performance and cpu usage was always lesser than 50%.
i concluded that it was the hdd. i did a chkdsk and there were bad sectors. i uninstalled
programs that i didn't use and after i rebooted, 'operating system not found'. wtf...
and so i formatted and reinstalled everything, but it was still skippy. i wanted a change of
hdd, but to bring the laptop to bloody samsung customer service and not having my laptop for
weeks was unthinkable. (aka lazy) i called up cyberactive and asked if they knew how to change
laptop hard disk drives, and they said it would cost 30 bucks for the service, 100 plus for the
hdd and that it might not work in the end cos some laptop hdds have dunnowhatdata for it
to work properly. fuck it la..
so under my dulan-ness, i turned my laptop over and figured out how to take out the hdd.
i took out the hdd from my portable hdd and switched. so bloody easy. and cyberactive is
charging 30 bucks for that? knn. whoever need to change laptop hdd come find me ok,
i charge 29 bucks only.
i reinstalled everything again. voila, everything's working perfectly, although its now 40gig. :(
but i'd rather have a stable 40gig. :)
to be fair, i think it was a 3rd party licensed distributor selling samsung products at the IT fair
in suntec. i'm not gonna blame yongyang too cos i know he's innocent :P i blame the unscrupulous
guy who gave me the faulty hdd and claimed that it was a good upgrade of 80gig instead of
60gig! may your 1s become 0s and your 0s become 1s.
and yongyang, where's my dinner?!?!?!!!
i think they gave me one that was problematic. bloody samsung. yes, samsung.
after about a week plus of using it, the performance became 'skippy'. couldn't be
my ram, i had 1gig. i checked the performance and cpu usage was always lesser than 50%.
i concluded that it was the hdd. i did a chkdsk and there were bad sectors. i uninstalled
programs that i didn't use and after i rebooted, 'operating system not found'. wtf...
and so i formatted and reinstalled everything, but it was still skippy. i wanted a change of
hdd, but to bring the laptop to bloody samsung customer service and not having my laptop for
weeks was unthinkable. (aka lazy) i called up cyberactive and asked if they knew how to change
laptop hard disk drives, and they said it would cost 30 bucks for the service, 100 plus for the
hdd and that it might not work in the end cos some laptop hdds have dunnowhatdata for it
to work properly. fuck it la..
so under my dulan-ness, i turned my laptop over and figured out how to take out the hdd.
i took out the hdd from my portable hdd and switched. so bloody easy. and cyberactive is
charging 30 bucks for that? knn. whoever need to change laptop hdd come find me ok,
i charge 29 bucks only.
i reinstalled everything again. voila, everything's working perfectly, although its now 40gig. :(
but i'd rather have a stable 40gig. :)
to be fair, i think it was a 3rd party licensed distributor selling samsung products at the IT fair
in suntec. i'm not gonna blame yongyang too cos i know he's innocent :P i blame the unscrupulous
guy who gave me the faulty hdd and claimed that it was a good upgrade of 80gig instead of
60gig! may your 1s become 0s and your 0s become 1s.
and yongyang, where's my dinner?!?!?!!!
* and the story ends like this..
