You need to clarify your question - it will restart when you turn the laptop on, but you may have to reload the operating system to get the computer to work.
Go into settings. Select memory, then games, then hard drive. Make saves of each game, then restart the Xbox having plugged in your new hard drive. Do the same thing, and simply drag each file that you want over onto your new hard drive.
Most likely the hard drive is damaged and you'll need a new one. There should be proprietary hard drive diagnostics available since scandisk is not a good tool for hardware diagnostics.
You press the volume button to turn it on and then if it doesn't, you might have to throw it as hard as you can on your drive way to restart the phone. If this doesn't work, throw it in the garbage and buy a new one.
Yes you should, laptops are very sensitive and could break down out of nearly nothing. My laptops hard drive broke down from having dust in the fan. If i would of bought the extended warranty then i could of replaced my old laptop with a free new one, but no. Now i have to buy a whole new laptop!!
Laptop gb is simply laptop gigabyte. Laptops come with a hard drive disk which has a set number of gigabytes, or some RAM which also comes with a set number of gigabytes. In some cases the gigabytes can be increased with new RAM sticks, or a new hard drive.
There are videos on youtube which tell you how to convert your old hard drive into a new hard drive.
If they are both SATA, then you can. Laptop hard drives usually require less power but in the same time they do not perform as well as desktop counterparts. If you have SSD that is laptop size (2.5') you will even see improvement. 2.5 SSDs are used for both desktops and laptops.
Your old game saves will be on your old hard drive/ memory unit. If they are on a memory unit then it is a simple issue of plugging the memory unit into the new xbox and copying the old save to the new hard drive. If you have an old hard drive you can plug the old hard drive into the new xbox and play from there. If you want to transfer the saved games from the old hard drive to the new hard drive you need a hard drive transfer cable and follow the instruction to transfer the data from the old hard drive to the new one.
your hard drive is most likely not formatted. read owners manual on how to format the hard drive. you will lose eerything on the hard drive when you format it.
When installing a new hard drive, it is important to remember that the hard drive is essentially blank. Special software is typically not needed to instal the drive, but if you want any of the programs from your original hard drive to carry over to the new one you will need to sync them together.
On the very top of your screen, there is a little blue apple in the top left corner, click on it. After you clicked on that, in between Sleep and Shut Down there should be Restart. Then click on restart. If by "restarting like it was brand new," you mean you want to clean it up so that is has no information on the hard drive, no user preferences, etc., then you would need to reload the system discs and do a "clean install." It's not hard, but you would lose all of the information you have accumulated to date.
The prices for a 20GB hard drive for an Xbox 360 tends to vary depending on whether it is a new hard drive or a refurbished one. A refurbished hard drive sells for approximately $30 but the prices for a new hard drive can be priced as high as $80.