From Dead Drive to Blazing Fast – A Rewarding HP Laptop Upgrade Story

It’s always rewarding when a computer repair Tulsa turns into a dramatic performance upgrade the customer can actually feel.

A customer brought in her HP laptop that was barely usable: Windows 10 would freeze at login or refuse to boot at all.

We pulled the 1 TB mechanical hard drive, tested it—tons of bad sectors. Using Unstoppable Copier we recovered the vast majority of her files (photos, documents, everything important).

We gave her two options:
- Replace with another 1 TB mechanical drive  
- Upgrade to a 1 TB Samsung SSD (much faster + longer warranty)  

She chose the SSD—and also decided to max out the RAM from 12 GB to 16 GB for her daughter’s gaming.

With the bottom cover already off for the drive swap, installation was quick:
- New Samsung 1 TB SSD installed  
- RAM upgraded to full 16 GB  
- Fresh Windows 10 install (blazing fast on the SSD)  
- All recovered data placed exactly where it belonged  

We ran our full post-repair checklist:
- All Windows updates  
- Device Manager clean (fixed one unknown device with HP drivers)  
- Audio, video, USB ports, Wi-Fi—all tested  

Result?  
Power button → login screen in ~15 seconds. Desktop fully ready in just a few more. Programs and games open instantly.

When she picked it up at our shop near 91st & Sheridan, we demonstrated the speed side-by-side with a similar laptop on a mechanical drive. Her reaction? Priceless.

These are the upgrades we live for—taking a dying, sluggish machine and making it feel brand new (often better than new).

Want that kind of transformation for your laptop or desktop?

Call Fireytech today at 918-258-FIRE (3473) or stop by 8988 South Sheridan Rd, Suite D1 (near 91st & Sheridan). Most SSD + RAM upgrades are same-day or next-day.

Your slow computer doesn’t have to stay slow.

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