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BSOD and HDD corruption - hard format not effective.
Hi all,
So it finally happened - my hard drive began to fail a few days ago, (after update patch KB2823324, managed to fix that but performance slowed).
Then began to get 'rinit.exe - corrupt File' message boxes, "The file or directory C:\Windows Live is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility" and "C:\Windows\Fonts\REFSPCL.TTF is corrupt . . . etc" followed by 'dwm.exe - System Warning' "Windows discovered a corruption in the file 'C:\Windows\System32\dxgi.dll'. This file has now been repaired, and shortly after -
'dwm.exe - Corrupt File' "The file or directory C\Windows\System32\dxgi.dll is corrupt and unreadable. Please run the Chkdsk utility." This was followed by a flurry of failed applications messages - then my BSOD.
Technical information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000006, 0xFFFFF88000EDB0E9, 0xFFFFF880027E5738, 0xFFFFF880027E4F90)
*** CI.dll - Address FFFFF88000EDB0E9 base at FFFFF88000ECA000, Datestamp 4ce7c944
collecting data for crash dump . . .
Initializing disk for crash dump . . .
I was never able to retrieve the dump file, and after several blue screens and chkdsk/r,f,b etc, plus a hard format, windows installs from the disk with the warning "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This disk may fail soon"
I have a nice Samsung 840 ssd, and Barracuda 500 ordered - before I install them, my concern is if KB2823324 did more damage than I thought and if the BIOS could have been compromised, so
Any advice from the Wise Sages of sevenforums would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.