[NFBCS] Fixing laptop

[Jim Denham]

Tracy:

Putting a new hard drive in an old laptop is not always possible and will probably be quite expensive. Plus, it will probably not improve the speed of the laptop all that much as this is really a function of the processor and ram. If you are looking to pass on this pc, I would check out this article.
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-wipe-your-hard-drive
Hope this is helpful.
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via NFBCS
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 7:49 AM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Subject: [NFBCS] Fixing laptop

A couple years ago I bought a laptop with the old kind of hard drive, not SSD.  

It's ridiculously slow, even slower than my very old PC with its old non-SSD drive.  

Could someone, like Geeksquad, put in an SSD drive instead, and would it help? 

Or, how hard would it be for me, or someone, to wipe out the little bit of stuff I've put on it so I could pass a clean machine on to someone else?  My only concern is that I set up mail on it, though it never worked well.

I think I have a Windows disk somewhere, if I have to hunt it out.  Or is it possible to just wipe out what I put into Windows Mail?

 

I want to either fix this machine or move it on.  There's a place in my state that takes donated machines and set them up for blind people to use, and I wouldn't mind giving it to them.  Maybe they can make it better than I can.  But I don't want my personal data on it. 

Thanks.

Tracy

 

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