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Okay cool, will this detect the current Windows key on the drive or from the laptop's motherboard?

Yeah I agree that its quite small but 250GB is the price we are willing to pay and this laptop will just be there for my father if he needs to type out Word Docs. So it will detect that windows was installed somewhere on the machine? Will it detect the (assumed) original Windows 8.1 or the (assumed) unoriginal Windows 10 from my vendor?

I'm back with my Lenovo Y50-70 touch. My old gaming laptop bought in 2015 came with Windows 8.1 installed on the 1TB HDD. I've had 3 HDD in the laptop 1TB , 500GB WDs, and currently a 2TB Seagate FireCuda SSHD 5400rpm with Windows 10 installed and loaded by the vendor who sold it too me. The drive was bought and installed in November 2018 and now in 2021 I believe it is failing because I constantly have disc errors that cannot be solved, laptop takes forever to load, everything stops responding every now and then, and Task Manager says disc is at 100%. My dad and I plan to get a new 2.5 inch SSD about 250 GB and freshly install Windows 10. Not really keen on going back to the vendor because we can't exactly monitor what he is installing. So I have a few questions: 1. Does it sound about right that the HDD is causing majority of the problems or is my whole laptop dying? 2. When it comes to installing Windows from a USB, how do I activate Windows? I've read that laptops have something like a Windows signature in the motherboard that is like an activation key? Will this work for installing Windows 10 since my laptop came with Windows 8.1 pre-installed? Basically I don't know what to do from Activate Windows onwards haha. Please help. PS - I'm aware Linux is also an option. I'm willing to try Linux too but my father and I want to try Windows first so he can have MS Office and all that stuff.

Thanks for the insight guys Stupid me finally found isopropyl alcohol online on Lazada so its all good now

I have a Lenovo Y50-70 touch laptop and want to reapply thermal paste to it. I'm from Malaysia and apparently finding just isopropyl alcohol is more difficult than I thought and all pharmacies I've been to only have Methylated Spirit with 95% alcohol. Is this stuff safe to substitute for isopropyl alcohol? If not, where else can I find isopropyl alcohol? Or what else can I use? Also I bought this cooler master thermal compound as my new thermal paste. Is it an okay choice? Pictures below

I'm from Malaysia and there is about to be a big online sale on Lazada on the 12th of July I'm thinking of buying a Razer DeathAdder Essential mouse from there HOWEVER Lazada has an official Razer store and the official DeathAdder is RM289 (which is quite expensive for me) and a different store called PCByte is selling the DeathAdder for RM115 Thinking of buying from PCbyte but im concerned whether or not its real or not. Seller claims its original and reviews say its genuine because it works with Razer Synapse and that the product serial number is eligible for Razer warranty claim. Is the warranty claim enough proof that the product is real?

Is this a good and straight forward guide to use? https://zfirmware.com/how-to-update-xiaomi-mi-4s-to-android-7-0-nougat/

Hey does anybody know how to update Android on a Xiaomi Mi 4s? I'm currently on Android 5.1 and going into settings and checking for updates just shows me MIUI 7 and no updates available. I saw on GSMArena that the OS starts of at 5.1 but can be updated to 7.0 Nougat/MIUI. Please help me. PS: I'm eager to update because Pokemon Go on my phone doesn't work after the latest update (22.2.2019) and i'm certain now that my OS is the problem.

Thanks for the input guys. I got the PS4 Pro and am ready to enjoy it

Its early 2019 and I can get Kingdom Hearts 3 with a PS4 Pro but the offer ends on the 29th of January. Along with this I can get Kingdom Hearts The Story So Far at a cheaper price. Should I get the PS4 Pro or wait for the Playstation 5??? PS - Kingdom Hearts, Anthem, Assassin's Creed and Spider Man PS4 is what I plan to play the most.

Thank you for the affirmation I'll be getting the drive later in the month so i'll try it out then and follow up then

Hi all I have started getting into computer tech only recently and only have basic knowledge I want to replace the hard disc of my Lenovo Y50-70 touch 860m laptop from a WD (black or blue can't remember) 500 GB hard disc to a Seagate Firecuda 2TB SSHD. Is the drive compatible? I'm excessively wondering because I saw a recent post on Lenovo's forums of a person who replaced his exact laptop with the Firecuda 2TB and he said it wasn't working. Others on the forum said that the bios might not be able to handle such a large drive or that the Firecuda required more power through the internal SATA connection than the laptop could provide. Could somebody help a newbie out? Some context: I cannot afford to buy the drive and test it out because my father is getting it from overseas trip and we can't return it if it doesn't work. I'm choosing a 2TB SSHD because i need the space for my laptop and I'm quite sure there is no expansion slots in my laptop like M.2 Laptop specs Lenovo Y50-70 touch Intel(R) Core i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.5 GHz 16 GB Ram 64-bit Operating system, x64-based processor GTX 860m 4GB VRAM