Thread: What should I do with this laptop?

Bought a laptop for $120, it was broken but it looked like it just needed an OS re-install. Booted off the xp disk, it got to the formatting stage and it just sits at 0% so I'm assuming the hard drive is bad. It's really only worth about $250 with everything working fine. It's a nice looking laptop but it's only got a 1.6 processor, 512mb of ram and an 80gig hard drive. Should I put in a new hard drive which I might be able to get for free and still try and make a bit of money or just lose the $20 and sell it to this guy on craigslist that buys broken laptops for $100?

lose the 20 sell it and walk away or take a little time install new hard drive and sell for what 250 and make a few bucks
i say sell it

It's a toshiba. Yeah who knows. I bought it to sell it, I was just hoping to make money not lose it haha.

Send it to me.. I'll pay shipping.

Originally Posted by Stunt0Rider

Send it to me.. I'll pay shipping.

PM me.

I use an old ibm laptop for internet browsing and tuning, works good for just that.

Fix it, toshibas are generally good computers, easy to repair.

Before doing any of that, test the drive for errors and do a low level format. Find out the manufacturer of the drive then search for the right tool. Check out Hiren's BootCD. It has 99% of what you'll need.

Originally Posted by dirtmaster88

Before doing any of that, test the drive for errors and do a low level format. Find out the manufacturer of the drive then search for the right tool. Check out Hiren's BootCD. It has 99% of what you'll need.

Thanks I'll have to check that out

geek squad! lol
or sell it... u can gain money on somethin else