Technology Hard drive problem

[Bachi]

My hard drive is messed up. I can't run my computer, the blue screen comes up. If I just do the windows installation all over, will that resolve the problem?

 

[Bobby Sands]

what does it say on the blue screen? is there some sort of a code. It sounds like a stop error.

did you install anything just before this started happening?

 

[masta247]

how do you know that it's a hard drive and not a ram memory for example?

 

[Cooper]

Tell us what the blue screen says. That would be a MASSIVE help.

 

[Farzin]

^Lol what he said.

You can't just say you have a problem without explaining it in detail.

Tell us your computer specs and the exact error msg. Any software or hardware you might have installed recently. Or anything else you can think of that might be the cause of the problem.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

^^ yep what both above this one said.

 

[Bachi]

Its one of those blue screens that says something like ''physical damage/dumping'' among many other shit.

Sometimes windows starts normal, but it only goes as far as to the desktop but then that blue screen comes up. Sometimes it doesnt even make it to the desktop and the black screen appears saying ''disc error''.

I then showed it to the technician and he said it was the hard drive problem thats how I know. He said I need to buy a new hard drive, put that as a master, put current HD (broken one) as a slave and do the windows installation. That way he said the current HD will still survive and MAYBE I'll get the access to the files.

But the thing is I don't want to buy a new HD. I just remembered I have an external HD where I have saved most of my files there. So I'm not worrying about loosing the files on this current HD. I just wanna run the windows installation all over on this current HD and hopefully that'll ''fix'' the HD? Will it?

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Its one of those blue screens that says something like ''physical damage/dumping'' among many other shit.

Sometimes windows starts normal, but it only goes as far as to the desktop but then that blue screen comes up. Sometimes it doesnt even make it to the desktop and the black screen appears saying ''disc error''.

I then showed it to the technician and he said it was the hard drive problem thats how I know. He said I need to buy a new hard drive, put that as a master, put current HD (broken one) as a slave and do the windows installation. That way he said the current HD will still survive and MAYBE I'll get the access to the files.

But the thing is I don't want to buy a new HD. I just remembered I have an external HD where I have saved most of my files there. So I'm not worrying about loosing the files on this current HD. I just wanna run the windows installation all over on this current HD and hopefully that'll ''fix'' the HD? Will it?

yea it can be reformatted using the cd. once the HDD has been formatted. you can simply put the files back on to the internal HDD from the external one.

Good luck.

 

[Bachi]

Reformatted is same as windows installation? lol

I'm not good at computer terminology.

 

[Cooper]

Its one of those blue screens that says something like ''physical damage/dumping'' among many other shit.

Sometimes windows starts normal, but it only goes as far as to the desktop but then that blue screen comes up. Sometimes it doesnt even make it to the desktop and the black screen appears saying ''disc error''.

I then showed it to the technician and he said it was the hard drive problem thats how I know. He said I need to buy a new hard drive, put that as a master, put current HD (broken one) as a slave and do the windows installation. That way he said the current HD will still survive and MAYBE I'll get the access to the files.

But the thing is I don't want to buy a new HD. I just remembered I have an external HD where I have saved most of my files there. So I'm not worrying about loosing the files on this current HD. I just wanna run the windows installation all over on this current HD and hopefully that'll ''fix'' the HD? Will it?

Should eb an error code...what is it?

 

[Bachi]

What? It says 'cd error and restart.' Come back and says same.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

Reformatted is same as windows installation? lol

I'm not good at computer terminology.

do you have the microsoft windows cd? XP, vista or whateevr operating system you had on the pc?

if you have it, then insert it into the cd drive and start up computer, from the boot screen you can reinstall windows as if your computer were to be brand new and used for the first time.

please note: all data will be deleted (even though you said you back it up on an external hard drive).

so everything should be okay if you can just reinstall the whole thing to factory settings.

 

[Bachi]

Ok I just tried to start the computer to run the cd and this message appeared ''SATA primary hard disk drive 0 failure'', then I clicked continue and it read ''no boot device available''.

 

[Bachi]

Can I run the windows installation with a different cd? Because I just remembered I used to run windows installation with my original cd, the one that came with the computer, and it would always stop at certain point middle of the installation and it would never finish installing. Theres something wrong with this cd as well. So I think I have a different cd for windows, can I use that?

 

[Bachi]

Fuck it I cant even pass that black screen to even run the cd.

 

[Caesar]

Set your bios to boot from CD first.

 

[Bachi]

Don't know how is that done.

 

[Farzin]

^When your computer is starting to boot punch hte Delete key a few times. This will get you into BIOS.

 

[Bachi]

hte you mean punch letters H T E and then Delete? Did that and BIOS came up but said keyboard failure and than again that black screen that said ''a disk read error accurred'' restart.

 

[Farzin]

Hmm? Thats odd.

BIOS is a software on the motherboard. It has nothing to do with the disk. That error should not come up.

No I mean just hit the delete button to get into BIOS at the beginning when your computer is booting up. I have never heard of having to punch in H T E first.