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Need Help Fast; Windows Says My HDD is bad.
Scenario:
Beautiful day, to have a day in, playing some Need For Speed or GTA, so i sit in my big blue chair, press the ''on'' button, and there is the 'BIOS welcome screen' and along comes the '7 logo' Great i think, to my self, i shall compl...
Problem;
... The logo freezes for more or less 30 seconds, next thing i see is the ''B(black)SOD'' seconds later the mouse disappears, and a bold writing comes up along lines of -
:''NTFS IS NOT CONSISTANT CHECK YOUR DISK NOW OR ANCEL BY PRESSING ANY BUTTON''
So i let it get checked, as you do... next thing i know is that it has "deleted / renamed / ''fixed''" 150000 odd 'index' files.And it will not boot up. I tryed to get into safe mode, Re-installed the syslem, and did some other stuff. but nothing helped. Even tryed to restore the system (Using System restore tool, went back as far as i could about 15 points).
your thoughts?
P.S. My first post sorry if i violated rules, but i seem to be the only with this problem. so desperate i rang up Microsoft and they said they had no clue what I'm on about. Thanks...
Additional Info;
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 now, and there is an amazing tool here GParted, I ran a SMART check on my two discs, my ''back up'' drive had some major digital damage, but that's not what i'm worried about, the main drive however, is said to be 100% fine, (except for the occasional trip up which is normal)...
...Before i forget too, i managed to boot into the safe mode once, i backed everything up, and discovered that everything from my library was gone, images, music, videos... all. and the graphics card driver was not responding.
Cheers for help, hope to resolve this.
Solution
Easy... what you will need, is to first of all back up all your data, grab onto a 2GB stick and some pc, and we're going to get UNetBootin , this software enables you to install linux nice and quick (i know, i know, this is a windows forum... eh...) after gottind Ubuntu 10.10 on your 2GB Stick, we boot into it, and generally back all your stuff to some external drive (i.e; External hdd or your second drive, or even another usb stick). after this, we can do a standard instalation of windows, (just as a caution pull any other un-necessary hardware out, so that you don't install in the wrong place... (like i did ; erased my back up drive and my main was un touched hehe... that was a bad day... any way...), when you are in the instalation bit, be sure to fully erase your drive, if in doubt, go back into linux and erase if from there (thats if you know your Unix commands).
I'm afraid you will have to delete all your data from the drive. Sorry :'(
Last edited by DeEmanon; 15 Nov 2011 at 14:08.
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