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Chase Payne

The other day my expensive comptuer had to be force shutdown over a freeze on League of Legends.

When the computer rebooted, it was unable to boot windows anymore.

All os installed to it does not work properly, or just too slow and most of the time it never completes it's installation.

When the computer is reinstalled with an OS like Linux or XP, the computer sometimes locks up and take minutes to do simple actions and most of the time, the installation fails with missing system files.

When the computer is trying to install windows 7, it usually fails to boot after resetting during the installations, even though other computers in the house have used the same windows disk and worked.

I think the main cause is saving to the harddrive, but I figured they Are like lightbulbs, they either work or completely dead. Infact there have been a few IO errors.

XSV · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:48 am Post subject:

Sounds like your boot sector is corrupt.

Run a check disk on your hard drive (more than likely repair the boot sec).

AhMunRa · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:02 am Post subject:

The boot sector should be overwritten on new OS installation.

Grab this http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ has great disk checking tools that operate without the OS.

And to check your memory, www.memtest.org

Chase Payne · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject:

Problem fixed, it was a harddrive failure, as I originally expected.

Sucks losing a terrabyte HD for a 200GB drive though.

Sephiron · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:00 am Post subject:

Noz3001 · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 6:36 am Post subject:

AhMunRa · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject:

If you have data on that disk you need to recover use Linux. Several times I've had disks that will not read and will make windows hang if installed, but I could load, and read, data off of in Linux. I've saved my data more than once using this method.