This is (or was) an excellent little notebook. BUT it has recently started to refuse to reboot. I press the power-on key (top left) and it lights up blue. The disk light at the front also turns blue for a second but then goes out. Nothing happens. I have to momentarily unplug the battery to start again - this loses the date an time and other IS data - but still it wont reboot.
I have found a 'solution' of sorts - far from elegant - and this is to press the power-on button and shake the laptop whilst in a vertical position. This seems to cause the hard-drive arm too move slightly enough to read the boot sectors. It then boots up from scratch. I then have to reset the date an time, and restart Chrome etc. The previous session is well lost.
Luckily I have backed up all of the data files, but it seems that the hard-drive is on the way out.
I have created a bootable USB drive for Linux Puppy (free) but this is ignored. Linux Puppy is useful since it runs in RAM only and also allows recovery of data files.
I did do a defrag. on the hard-drive and this went from 19% to 35% - that is it ended up more defragged than it started. This also took about 4 hours and 7 passes.
So the next issue is to replace the hard-drive - but I don't have the original Win 7 Start disks. So it may mean I'll have to install Linus Ubuntu (or some other flavour).
Any ideas please?
