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BTW Hard drives are pretty cheap , if you still are having any issues w/ bad clusters, buy a new one and copy it over, or a large flash drive for the stuff you will not want to be lost.(and they are a lot easier to install now) In my very limited computer knowledge, it seems that once they start to go it is a rather fast decline.
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 2:27AM | View revrent's Profile | # | ||||||
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 4:21AM | View Sarcasm Inc's Profile | # | ||||||
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Oh, and if you follow the lead coming out of the back of the PSU, you’ll find is disappears into the carpet. So the trouble might be a lack of power. Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 4:22AM | View Sarcasm Inc's Profile | # | ||||||
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Now I’m getting a disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del when I start it, that’s when I boot from the HHD as the primary thing Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 8:54AM | View Celerysteve's Profile | # | ||||||
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xxEmoxKidxx Posted: |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 9:16AM | View man-man's Profile | # | ||||||
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First, back up anything important. As you’re getting bad clusters that most likely means the drive was physically damaged when it was dropped – the more you use it, the more damage is caused.
Second, get a replacement drive – as it’s a Vista PC that’ll mean a 2 1/2” SATA drive.
They’re easy to replace. If you look underneath the laptop there are a number of covered slots for things that people usually want to replace or upgrade (hard drive, battery, RAM, etc) The hard drive will slide in from one side. You’ll need a small screwdriver.
Use the recovery CD, restore your backed up files.
An alternative approach, or additional step, would be to get an external caddy to hold your old drive, so if it’s still working you could copy anything off it you missed earlier. |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 9:34AM | View Spot's Profile | # | ||||||
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i mean woof |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 9:37AM | View Spot's Profile | # | ||||||
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Celerysteve Posted: |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 9:58AM | View Celerysteve's Profile | # | ||||||
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If it was in such bad condition and there was such uncertainty it would boot up again, why didn’t you save your **** before rebooting and running chkdisk? You were told to back up your files right off the bat. There’s a possibility that if you reinstall Vista over the same partition without reformatting, you can access your files (and SAVE them, and then get a new drive). If the drive’s too damaged, it probably won’t work. Otherwise, you can pay someone to try and recover your files. Make the dumb **** that broke it pay for the new drive/data recovery, as she is legally liable anyway. 1337xxxxxxxxxlolololololololololxxxxxxxxx1337 edited this message on 03/30/2010 11:20AM |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 11:19AM | View 1337xxxxxxxxxlol...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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Yeah, it’s completely ****ed… I can’t even reformat it. I guess I need to replace the hard drive. I hope nothing else is ****ed up. This is a ****ed up situation.
I took it out and looked at it and put it back in but now when I try too boot from the hhd it just gives me a blinking cursor, but I can still boot ok from the disk it’s just all the option don’t really do anything to fix it. |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 12:28PM | View Celerysteve's Profile | # | ||||||
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Geek skawd that box, dawg |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 12:34PM | View 1337xxxxxxxxxlol...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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1337xxxxxxxxxlolololololololololxxxxxxxxx1337 Posted:
Don’t know what that means. Maybe I can buy a bigger hard drive for this cheap junk. That just gives me more storage though right? Won’t make it really run better. You like big ones though don’t you? |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 12:40PM | View Celerysteve's Profile | # | ||||||
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Hard drives aren’t very expensive, but buy what size you think you need. I meant take it to Geek squad (Best Buy) or a local computer shop if you want to try and recover your data.
Does it go anywhere into the boot process? Like where does it stop? |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 12:43PM | View 1337xxxxxxxxxlol...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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When I try to reformat it gives me different errors like can’t create partition, etc in like less than a minute into it. |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 12:59PM | View Celerysteve's Profile | # | ||||||
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It’s probably just booting that much from the CD, I guess.
You’re not making it sound like your old data’s that important, but you can try to: 1. Buy the same size drive 2. Buy one of these to connect them ($20) 3. Put this on the new drive: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/ (ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz) 4. Figure it out from this manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html
It should copy everything from your old drive, while ignoring the bad sectors. Otherwise, pay someone else to do the recovery (possibly hundreds of dollars). |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 1:35PM | View 1337xxxxxxxxxlol...'s Profile | # | ||||||
That’s definitely physical errors. You need a new drive. Don’t even try to boot from it or partition it anymore.
Like leetlol said, the only thing you can do about your files is buy some file recovery software and slave the bad drive on another system, or if it means that much to you, take it to data recovery experts which will cost you several hundred if not thousands of dollars.
I’ve had a similar situation happen to me, I bought a cheap ($10) 2.5” to 3.5” adapter for the hard drive and plugged it in my desktop. That worked for the file recovery. |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 2:53PM | View grinsen's Profile | # | ||||||
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Yeah best buy wants $70 bucks just to run a diagnostic and I can get the hard drive for that. At least I’ll have a bigger hard drive in the end… This one was a measly 74gb.
My data is you know, maybe worth paying $100 to get replaced, I wouldn’t pay more than that. It still sucks bum losing all my |
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Posted On: 03/30/2010 3:30PM | View Celerysteve's Profile | # | ||||||
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Hi. Good morning. Next time keep your data burned to CD’s/DVD’s or a thumb drive or an external HD or even upload them to a Gmail/Docs account because you have nearly 8g’s that way and you can make as many accounts as you want. |
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Posted On: 03/31/2010 9:19AM | View 1337xxxxxxxxxlol...'s Profile | # | ||||||
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1337xxxxxxxxxlolololololololololxxxxxxxxx1337 Posted:
I know for sure. I totally shouldn’t have listened to megazeroexe and ran the dsk chk right away, that ****ed it up, but I think he meant well.
I’m going to get some money coming up here, after looking at the hard drives I’ve decided better just to pay few hundred dollars more and get a cheap laptop with like 4gb ram and a much bigger hard drive. What I had was (512 when I bought it upgraded to) 1gb. |
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Posted On: 04/01/2010 8:42PM | View Celerysteve's Profile | # | ||||||
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