Installing Win7 or Using Universal Restore - Asus Vivobook

You have 4 bad sectors that indicate that your disk has a surface damage (cant be repaired). Your disk may be dying.
Save all your data on another disk.
This kind of disk failure can explain the crashes you're having.
Replace it with a SSD. They cost almost as much as a first line HDD.
Crucial BX500
WD Blue
Do a clean install (don't clone it).

For the updates, use Simplix.
MS releases SP2 for Windows 7

Megahertz07 said:

You have 4 bad sectors that indicate that your disk has a surface damage (cant be repaired). Your disk may be dying.
Save all your data on another disk.
This kind of disk failure can explain the crashes you're having.
Replace it with a SSD. They cost almost as much as a first line HDD.
Crucial BX500
WD Blue
Do a clean install (don't clone it).

For the updates, use Simplix.
MS releases SP2 for Windows 7

Great , thanks a lot, I will do that.
Hopefully that is the issue.

...out of curiosity, what'd happen if I clone the installation? Would it copy the bad sectors to my new SSD or HDD?

Thanks,

amoretam said:

Great , thanks a lot, I will do that.
Hopefully that is the issue.

...out of curiosity, what'd happen if I clone the installation? Would it copy the bad sectors to my new SSD or HDD?

Thanks,

The data on the bad sectors is corrupted and will be lost (total or partial). If this data is from OS files you may transfer the problems to the new drive.

I strongly suggest you to do a clean install.

Megahertz07 said:

The data on the bad sectors is corrupted and will be lost (total or partial). If this data is from OS files you may transfer the problems to the new drive.

I strongly suggest you to do a clean install.

Understood!

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Megahertz07 said:

The data on the bad sectors is corrupted and will be lost (total or partial). If this data is from OS files you may transfer the problems to the new drive.

I strongly suggest you to do a clean install.

An alternative to a clean install is to clone the HDD into the new drive and then do a Repair Install

A still strongly suggest you to do a clean install.

For the updates, use Simplix.
MS releases SP2 for Windows 7

Hi there. How are you doing?

I have followed what you guys sugested, I bought another SSD and did a clean Windows installation and all good.
I have a client an I need to open a proyect urgently but for that I need an installation back up so I tried to restore from an old Acronis True Image image I had on an external HDD using a bootable True Image CD but, the image was corrupted.
Fine, I decided to go clean installation of the OS and all my programs again
but now, when I rebooted, I see no BIOS post and no signal in my monitor.

I wonder what happened, all I want is to get into the BIOS so that it boots from the Windows CD.
I ressettted the BIOS and re-placed memory but nothing,
What could be wrong?

Thanks a lot

Hi there , anyone?
Do you think it has something to do with BIOS corruption maybe?

Thanks