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17th June 2010, 00:59 | #1 |
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Corrupted hard drive
Before I end up taking this to the techs (ick) at some point my Windows Vista Business OS became corrupted. does a fast BSOD right at the windows start up screen and reboots and does this forever loop thing. Thinking another bad update.
Run repair on it and log says volume corrupted. Any easy to follow instructions to repair it? Stellar recover is awesome at recovering files but it'll still be a pain to reinstall again. At least for now I'm stuck on ubuntu. Which rarely gets corrupted. But less programs run on it |
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17th June 2010, 15:58 | #2 |
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Vista has one good feature-- just one, IMHO-- & that is that it has the ability to repair itself.
Insert your Vista DVD & then boot to it & choose "repair..." Good luck! |
17th June 2010, 17:33 | #3 |
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God knows how many times I have re-installed Windows XP for similar problems.
Vista seems to be more stable so never had the problem with this system. Do let us know you resoved it. |
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17th June 2010, 20:21 | #4 |
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have had problems with windows 7 in this area, but not Vista so this was a first. windows repair can't even find the drive so it's something in the MBR. Only Stellar Phoenix Windows Recovery 3 finds stuff on the drive and I've had worse corruption. I simply found the folders using the normal method. I've had to use advanced on worse corruption so it's gotta be something easy. It's a Fujitsu 320gb, I've had a great track record with that brand. Just wondering if there's a program out there that might fix a possible MBR problem or tell me what else might be a problem before I spend $40 to have them tell me whats wrong and $80 or so to fix it.
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the problems could be because of overheating .. buggy applications "include Viruses" .. unexpected shutting down .. or low quality HDD
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23rd June 2010, 19:06 | #6 |
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never had a modern Fujitsu drive go down. They've been rather reliable , but I think heat probably was a factor. I normally run wire of course. But as I was at a hotel for 3-4 days (it's a dell 820 and the wifi switch broke long ago) so been using a pc card wifi. which sits on top of the drive. It may have gotten too hot the night before. The techs' already told me the OS is shot, so they are backing up my software then reinstalling vista. But thanks for the input. Usually if I can't get it to work, nobody else will. But had to try.
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30th June 2010, 22:14 | #7 |
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Find a copy of "Ultimate Boot CD". It is a standalone Linux system with several programs on it to repair and manipulate a lot of things. I've used it to repair MBRs, even partition tables.
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1st July 2010, 02:52 | #8 |
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neowin had a headline awhile back saying something along that line about how Linux might help save windows. Right now though I'm just backing the stuff to another drive (came 2 days early. paid economy on geeks dot com and came faster than the standard shipping does.) Ironically I said the stuff about Fujitsu... they sold their hard drive dept to Toshiba.... which technically no longer honors the warranties. It's up to the OEM's and sellers. So if geeks gets mad, we're both SOL. Cause I'll end up at the BBB and complain. Samsung drives haven't been all that bad. Used to be a Seagate guy until at least 2 of them in 2 years time died on me. Under warranty but still lose the stuff. (beyond the Fujitsu corruption, because in those two cases, they both had head crashes. Hard to come back from a head crash)
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