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butcherknife

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ok so i have a dell inspiron 1501, with windows 7 and it just wont boot up. i turn it on and it takes about 20seconds to load up
the DELL welcome screen with the bios version. the red loading bar just sits there for almost 30 seconds until it finishes, when it does the screen just goes plain black with the flashing dash thing. it just stays that way forever. also, the activity green light is steady on, does not even blink, as if it was under so much activity.

i tried booting from the recovery disk so i could try tto repair any start up problems i dont make it past the "windows loading" thing, it just freezes right there again.

same when i tried booting from the windows 7 dvd to do a clean install, i make it to the "windows loading" thing with the four colors and it freezes up again. and again, with the green light steady on.
any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks. adrian.
 

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i did. i can see the gray windows loading files bar but after that i get another "loading windows" bar and it freezes right there again.
 

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what will memtest do for me?
 

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It will test your RAM. It sounds like you have hardware problems, so these are the two things which Users can test most easily.

If you have bad RAM, isolate which stick is causing the errors and replace it.

If it is the HD, sometimes the maker's repair scan can fix the HD to return it to normal service, or you will know for sure it is the problem.

If the hardware is clear then I would wipe the HD to reinstall Win7. Free Partition Wizard bootable CD will autostart to wipe your HD with zeroes to overwrite any possibly infected code. Then the Win7 DVD should autostart, too, to reinstall. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/93322-partition-wizard-use-bootable-cd.html option 3

If you have a factory Recovery partition, you can also run it from boot: http://support.dell.com/support/top...d=3E48AE3870775D64E040A68F5B2877D4&doclang=en

If you can't boot the DVD to copy out your files using this method http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/93347-copy-paste-windows-recovery-console.html then use Paragon Rescue Disk which should autostart to rescue your files: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-express/

I uploaded the best image burner. Use 4x speed - it never fails:
 
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butcherknife said:
what will memtest do for me?
Click to expand...

- What is memtest86+, what do I use it for?

Memtest86+ is a utility designed to test whether your memory is in working
order. It repeatedly writes an enormous amount of different patterns to all
memory locations and reads them back again and verifies whether the result
of the read is the same as what was written to memory.

There can be a multitude of reasons for running memtest, but foremost of all
is of course to test whether your memory modules might be bad. Whenever you
suspect your modules to be bad because of system crashes, lockups or reboots
it would be nice to know whether the modules are in working order.
Memtest86+ is a utility which tries to answer that question for you.
Click to expand...

Hope this answers your query - more here
 
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thanks a lot, i will try that and post in any results (:
 

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You will download iso and burn it to a blank cd-rom. You have to use a program that will make it bootable like Deepburner.
 

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Also I have an old Windows XP Laptop for backup/occasional use etc.
ok so i went and downloaded the seatools iso from the the seagate website, burned it to a cd and booted from it. i did a long scan and it found about 90 bad sectors, it gave me the option to repair them but they all failed to repair, i repeated the process about 3 times but they all failed to repair anything.

i noticed in the advance features tab, there is a "erase track zero" "time erase" full erase" option. will any of these bring the HDD back to life?

is there ANY way to repair those bad sectors? an alternative one?
also, is there a way to recover some of the data from the faulty disk?
 

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This software has helped several members recover data from failing HDs. Maybe it can help you.
PC Inspector FILE RECOVERY

Be sure to click En on the upper right, if you desire to read the information in English.
 

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Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell XPS 420
OS
Windows 10, Home Clean Install
CPU
Intel Core2 processsor Q8200(2.33Ghz 1333FSB) Quad Core Tech
Motherboard
Dell
Memory
6 gb
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon 256MB HD3650
Sound Card
Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
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Dell SP2009W 20"
Hard Drives
640 GB Serial ATA Hard drive
Cooling
Fan
Keyboard
Dell USB Keyboard
Mouse
Dell Premium Optical USB
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DSL 2.85
and oh, i forgot to mention, the hard drive is no longer being recognized by either the bios or the computer. i inserted the windows 7 installation cd again, hoping it would let me reinstall, this time it let me get to the installation page but it did not find any hard drives to install to. when i run seatools though, it is listed there.
 

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I posted above with software to recover you doucments, but that was before the additional information that you posted. I hope it is not too late.
 

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Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Dell XPS 420
OS
Windows 10, Home Clean Install
CPU
Intel Core2 processsor Q8200(2.33Ghz 1333FSB) Quad Core Tech
Motherboard
Dell
Memory
6 gb
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon 256MB HD3650
Sound Card
Intergrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Dell SP2009W 20"
Hard Drives
640 GB Serial ATA Hard drive
Cooling
Fan
Keyboard
Dell USB Keyboard
Mouse
Dell Premium Optical USB
Internet Speed
DSL 2.85
i hope so too :/
but thanks, i'll look that up.
 

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I know it is hard to give up, especially because a really dead HD won't even recognize the Repair CD. I think you've done all you can do if it won't show in BIOS, except swap the cables to be sure.

If you can boot into it with WIn7 DVD or REpair, you can copy out files this way: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/93347-copy-paste-windows-recovery-console.html

You can also try Paragon Rescue CD which autostarts like Seatools to attempt to rescue partitions or data. http://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-express/

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/93347-copy-paste-windows-recovery-console.html
 
it is hard, specially since im broke and can't afford a new one right now, lmao.
just last night i installed ubuntu's live cd (life saver!) and was able to mount the drive, i thought id just copy everything
tomorrow to a pen drive or something so i unmounted it and went to bed, something must have happened to it
overnight since today it just wouldn't show up on disk utility. strange.

i will give pagagon a try though, hopefully it will be able to rescue something.

thanks a bunch, you've been of great help.
 

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