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Reinstall Windows on Corrupt Hard Drive
Hi,
Apologies if I have posted this in the wrong section. A few weeks ago my Lenovo G570 froze and refused to start, I have tried a number of solutions, and I think I am getting somewhere, but I could do with some pointers. I will outline what I have done so far:
- I have tried the system repair, which failed to fix the problem
- I then downloaded system repair disc and put it onto a bootable USB, but this still didn't fix the problem
- I have taken my hard drive out and put it into a case. I plugged it into a second laptop (running windows vista 32 bit). When I plugged it in, it claims that the hard drive is corrupt, so I have started recovering data which I haven't backed up using photorec. This is working, and I think I will need to completely reinstall windows on my Lenovo.
- I have downloaded the windows 7 64 bit iso, but when using the windows 7 USB DVD download tool to write the ISP to a USB, it fails saying it is unable to run bootsect. I have looked around and I think this might be due to a incompatibility between 32 and 64 bit systems. I do have a 64 bit work computer running windows 7, but I would rather not use that (it policies etc).
My questions are:
1) can I use easybcd to write the iso I downloaded for reinstalling windows 7?
2) are there any suggestions for what I could do next?
3) should I have done anything differently
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a image backup from about 5 months ago, if that helps anything. I am relatively new to all this, and I have definitely learnt my lesson about backing up everything and creating discs BEFORE these problems happen, but in the mean time I have a few problems to fix!
Thanks
Ben