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Hard Drive issues... no idea what to do...
Hi there. I really have no idea where to start, so... lets begin. We made our pc a couple years ago, and weve had some definite problems. Lately it has been with the ram, which we replaced, so when we recently realised that our pc was starting up rather slow, and when it began to show this error on startup:"A disk read error occured Press ctrl alt delete to restart", our first reaction was to run memtest. Upon an overnight running, it became apparent that the ram was not the problem. After some searching, we found that it was clearly a hard drive problem.
Now that I finish this tangent, I see that I've been using we and our like a loon. Sorry...
Anyways, after a few tries I am able to sometimes get into a very slow and uncooperative windows, so not all of my hope is lost for my hard drive, and luckily the bios is still recognizing it. I really have no idea where to go from here, but I would trully hate to have to totally re install windows, and every single thing else, and that is a last ditch effort. I have however been looking into getting a new hard drive, possibly SSD, though I would much rather fix the current one. Also, if it is possible, I would like to transfer all of my files, including the current windows installtion to the new hard drive.
I'm going on vacation this weekend, so I probably wolnt have this finished any time soon, unless this is going to be easier than I expect. Until then I can get any information you need, and I already have the good ol paragon rescue kit on a disk if necessary.
Thanks.