Installing Operating System

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jonathanaustrali

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Hi, may be a silly question, but bought a new laptop and when you turn it on it installs Windows for the first time from the hard drive, not a disk. It takes ages. My question is I had it sitting on my bed at an angle. Should it be level? Does it make any difference installing operating systems on an angle or not? Are laptops built for that? Does it do any damage to the hard drive? Just curious. Thanks.
 
My question is I had it sitting on my bed at an angle. Should it be level? Does it make any difference installing operating systems on an angle or not? Are laptops built for that? Does it do any damage to the hard drive? Just curious. Thanks.
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Never ever put a laptop on your lap, bed, sofa or any soft furnishings whatsoever.

To do so will block the ventilation system and cause overheating.

Overheating = dead laptop.
 
It doesn't make any difference, it can be upside down and still work fine, however you don't want to be moving it excessively while it's utilizing the hard drive.

Wolfeymole said:
Never ever put a laptop on your lap, bed, sofa or any soft furnishings whatsoever.

To do so will block the ventilation system and cause overheating.
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You are joking right? Most laptops have side and/or top ventilation as well for just that reason.
 
Top ventilation?

I've never seen a lappy yet with ventilation on the keyboard and touchpad area.

Your advice is seriously wrong mate.
 
HP G61 has ventilation under the keyboard (intake from rear bottom and top, exhaust out the left side).
Acer 5742G has ventilation access from the top around the speaker area (in gaming I can feel it pulling air downward
 
Wolfeymole said:
Top ventilation?

I've never seen a lappy yet with ventilation on the keyboard and touchpad area.

Your advice is seriously wrong mate.
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Ever seen a MacBook? It has no ventilation on the bottom at all, just on the top/back between the LCD and keyboard.
 
Hi

Ventilation is fine, it's not on the bottom but sides. My question was about the hard drive installing operating system on an angle. Thanks Omega. And I will try and not put it on soft furnishings in future. Thanks all. Sounds like I should not be worried about it.
 
[-0MEGA-];1655053 said:
It doesn't make any difference, it can be upside down and still work fine, however you don't want to be moving it excessively while it's utilizing the hard drive.


You are joking right? Most laptops have side and/or top ventilation as well for just that reason.
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No joke-- beds and sofas are the leading cause of premature laptop death.


Vista takes for-freakin-ever to install.
 
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Dngrsone said:
No joke-- beds and sofas are the leading cause of premature laptop death.


Vista takes for-freakin-ever to install.
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Depends on the laptop, some only have ventilation on the bottom while others have it on the sides or top.

Back to his question though, it does not matter the orientation of the laptop.
 
i would think it would just because of the nature of the hard drive and movable arm.
It is mechanical and not digital. except for SSD. I would not do it.
 
Wolfeymole said:
Never ever put a laptop on your lap, bed, sofa or any soft furnishings whatsoever.

To do so will block the ventilation system and cause overheating.

Overheating = dead laptop.
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You're having a laugh mate.

Wolfeymole said:
Top ventilation?

I've never seen a lappy yet with ventilation on the keyboard and touchpad area.

Your advice is seriously wrong mate.
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Also wrong You do realise you are talking to a well respected member who is an expert on this forum.

To the OP it doesn't matter where you place it while its installing the OS as others have said just try not to move it around while its using the Hard Drive or doing important tasks such as installing an OS.
 
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the clock isnt ticking very fast. I used a IBM thinkpad on me lap/bed/other cloth surfaces for nearly 10 years. The computer was nearly 15 years old, and Heat never killed it. And it got really hot sometimes. In fact the death if it (so to speak, it still powers on) was a RAM failure. 1 pass of MEMTEST shows 100+ errors.

And just because you dont set a laptop (even new ones) on a cloth surface dont mean that they wont overheat. If I were to turn on BFBC2 on my acer and set it in the dang Icebox, it would probably still overheat.
 
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