I've been having problems with installing a fresh OS because my harddrive. When I began the clean installation process my hard drive started clicking periodically (which didn't happen till I started) I was able to partition around these bad sectors and get the OS installed. I am now sitting at a clean desktop with the computer running fine.However, I know that these bad sectors will cause problems later and I'm wanting to know what I should do now. Is there anything I can do to kill these bad sectors and ensure my hard drive to stay proper? I realize that this shows my hard drive is going bad, but I feel if I can get this taken care of then I can keep the hard drive a while longer.
i am getting the asus motherboard as i like the brand and i know its a reliable board for the price. i know the psu isn't a amazing brand but all the reviews are good. i honestly don't care for a case but its better then using my old one and its a 5 star egg and comes with a fan. the ram im going to install is supposed to be amazing for the price and is customer choice award. and the cpu im going with is a i3 2100 as that is all i need. i mean im upgrading from a pentium 4 should be wayyyy better i also have seen many many Internet videos with the i3 in the board i picked.$307 for pretty much a whole new computer? this is my first build so im going small :p i think its pretty good links: basic case 530w psu 8gb ram asus p8h61 motherboard intel i3 2100 @ 3.1ghz (i have a good dvd drive)(will put in good gpu in about 2-4 months) (i have hdd and will order windows)overall:i am sticking with the asus motherboard and i3 processor (don't suggest another brand motherboard or cpu please i am settled )
Avast was running out and was advised to go AVG free because it does its job and any system is easy enuf to infiltrate, no matter how much it costs or what it states it can prevent.Is there a download that is not a 29 day trial?
My Windows 7 system will not boot due to what I found out are bad sectors on the hard drive. I ran SeaTools to check the Seagate drive and it found several bad sectors. If I allow SeaTools to "repair" the bad sectors, will I be able to boot into Windows 7 again so I can at least save my data before replacing the hard drive?
I am having window xp running on that hdd but when I am trying to load windows 7 then setup recognize that my hdd having bad sectors and after running set it shows the fail operation of loading windows 7.
I have installed windows 7 x64, the installation went fine, it runs fine, no bsods, no crashes, no restarts, no freezes, no slowdown. Basically it just runs fine, all updates installed fine.
Now, I did a scan on the HDD, and it has bad sectors pending. I imaged the windows to another HDD.Loaded onto the other HDD, it boots fine, runs fine, idles fine, installed a few things, checked the files system, ran chkdsk ( just fix box, not the second box to repair ), all OK.So my question is, how can I know if the bad sectors on old HDD had any damage to the windows installation, and thus on the new HDD?
This notebook started to behave badly and I found that the problem is the HDD.ItFor you to get the scenario: I first ran the Windows native disk tool and it reported no problem. But the system was still slow and freezing.So I made some googling and ran Check Disk GUI, but it couldn't complete its job. So I started to figure out that the thing was a bit harder than I first thought.I tried to defrag and optimize with Auslogics Disk Defrag Portable, and it too couldn't go all the way.I tried PartitionGuru, which, finally, could do the job � in more than 48 hours of disk scan! And it reported: "Disk verify completed. 548 bad track areas found."After all that, things went worse: I couldn't start Windows, I got a "Missing operating system" message...Then I tried Wondershare LiveBoot 2012 to no avail.The last effort I want to try is use some portable app (running from a USB pen drive) to format the whole HDD.The HDD in question has three partitions. C: (system), D: (data, I created this partition), and a hidden one that keeps the data needed to restore the Acer notebook to its factory settings.If I succeed to format the whole thing, I'll try to make a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium. I want to format the whole HDD (from a USB pen drive) to have one single partition.
I made a chkdsk and found errors which were repaired by not allowing the bad fragments to be written on. When I use chkdsk /v it continually shows 8kb in bad sectors. Does anyone know if these are the bad sectors that were sent into limbo or the total bad kb on the hard drive? I have made back ups of my documents and the OS. I think that these bad sectors were caused by a recent freeze which required a bad shutdown. If so I may not be required to replace the harddrive.
explicitly creating bad sectors in a flash drive. Is making bad sectors possible by repeadly disconnecting flash drive during file write process? How can a flash drive develop bad sectors in its memory ?
I am having a problem with my computer, it shows black screen after logging in, it won't display my desktop, even if i use another user's login details it seems as if it will display but then suddenly logout,but i can use the other partition without having a problem.
I get my PC configured and set up exactly how I like it, and then my 1 year old hard drive conks out on me!
I did a CHKDSK and it had some bad sectors and plenty of file corruption. Ran the Hitachi DFT software and it seemed to think it has rescued it, but I'm using another drive now just in case.
Luckily I could still access my e-mails when I accessed the drive from another system, and everything else is backed up via Acronis.
Drive C was an old IDE drive with XP on it. I installed and new SATA drive for WIN 7. Win 7 installed and activated just fine. Now I want to remove the Old IDE XP drive from the machine but the boot partition is on the IDE drive. I need to know how to remove the old drive and make the new SATA drive bootable into the Win 7 install on it.
My laptop is not booting up. i tried reinstalling it, but still even with a boot able disk, the system is not loading up. I even tried reinstalling from the USB drive. still I the system isn't responding.
I am having serious corruption problems with my hard drive. I have reinstalled windows a few times now, but it always ends up being unable to boot. At the moment, my computer cannot even boot up in normal or safe mode, all my restore points have been deleted, and startup repair cannot do anything.After backing up my data and running a test with the Seagate SeaTools diagnostics in DOS, it was reported that there were bad sectors found on my Hard Disk. But I actually can't use this software to repair the bad sectors tough since it's a Western Digital drive. Is there any software that I could download to repair these bad sectors, or am I going to have to replace
I assume I have a trojan which replaced a certain windows core DLL by a modified version.When I list all files in a directory (e.g. C:widnowssystem32) in Windows Explorer then certain files are not visible.Yes, I checked unhide hidden files on unprotect system files in WinExp options.So actually ALL files must be visible which is not the case.Is there a win-explorer-like tool which does not use this faked win
My external hard disk has been acting up i.e it would take time to load some documents. So I decided to perform the Check disk options. This has been going on for the last 3 days and am thinking of cancelling the process because it seems to be stuck and it is not even 20% done. What will be the consequences of cancelling it?
i had installed windows 7 in my laptop,but accidentally i installed it in D-drive,now both C & D drives are showing program files,program files x86,windows folders,my D drive is full
Every now and then my WiFi stops working, and if I go to dev mgr, the General tab tells me that "No drivers are installed for this device" for device status. On the other tabs, however, I have all the details on the installed driver, and if I ask Windows to update the driver, it tells me that the best driver is already installed. The problem is solved by rebooting, but I find that annoying. I'd like to figure out WHY it does that. I've saved earlier versions of that particular driver from over the last three years, and the problem occurs with all of the drivers. This is a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit system. The driver is an Intel driver; the one installed at this moment (it just happened again, and I have not rebooted, since I had a powerline enet outlet handy), and the version of the Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN is 14.3.1. I have other versions of that driver saved, from 13.2.1.5 to 15.1.1_Ds64. I had reverted to the 14.3.1 because the more recent versions seemed to be worse about the driver disabling itself or whatever it is doing.Coincidentally with this, the event viewer shows that mmc.exe was terminated because it was hanging. I had just run sfc yesterday, and there are no corrupt files that Windows cannot fix, and there weren't even any corrupt files that it DID fix.
Win7 Ultimate SP 1 AMD Phenom II X 4 965 Processor 3.40Ghz 8GB (3.12 usable) ???? 32-bit OS
I just built me a new computer. I installed Win7 Ultimate. Everything is running pretty good. I went to look at the stats for my system and noticed the RAM. Windows sees the 8 gig that is in stalled but Im unsure why its only using 3 gigs.
Recently i bought windows 7 to install instead the xp im using now, the problem is after partitioning and installing, the moment when windows wants to start for the 1st time, it gets stuck in the black screen after loading windows remains and the only thing that can be seen is mouse cursor, no matter how long i wait, the user creation and windows 7 configuration never shows up!P.S: My pc specs are:HDD: near 160 GB...i gave 30 Gb 1st time, and saw the problem then gave 45Gb, and the problem remained..CPU: intel pentium 4, 3,20GHz 3,21GHzRAM: 1GB...I've noticed that 64-bit needed 2GB of rams, therefore i tried to install Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bitGraphics card: NVIDIA Geforce 7600 GS - 512 MB of ramptical Driver : Ofcourse. It is DvD Drive.
Recently i bought windows 7 to install instead the xp im using now, the problem is after partitioning and installing, the moment when windows wants to start for the 1st time, it gets stuck in the black screen after loading windows remains and the only thing that can be seen is mouse cursor, no matter how long i wait, the user creation and windows 7 configuration never shows up. [code]
I'm learning still - so forgive my nubness! I went to microsofts site to d/l the Windows 7 ( 64 bit ) 90 day trial.
Burnt the iso to a DVD and booted from disc...
I think it told me the old files would be saved as something ".old" but I cannot find it anywhere and now i am running low on HD space and have nothing installed yet!
I installed Windows 7 on a brand new SSD and I go into windows explorer and its telling me 48.4 GB free of 111 GB, otherwise known as: Windows 7 and only Windows 7 is taking up 62.6 GB!
I have Foxconn A7GM-S motherboard with 8 GBytes of memory. I did successfully install Windows 7 once. Then I got a new box with a better power supply, and ever since then I cannot get Windows 7 installed. I have installed XP on several other systems with no problems, but this installation has not gone smoothly.
I was reinstalling Windows 7 on my friends computer after he was told by Dell he had a major virus and he needed a fresh install. With that being said, once the new installation was done, we noticed it was on the "D" drive (Recovery) and not the "C" drive.
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.1 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium , 64 bit Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 350 @ 2.27GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 2 Processor Count: 4 RAM: 3758 Mb Graphics Card: Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator HD, 1751 Mb Hard Drives: C: Total - 294742 MB, Free - 133700 MB; Motherboard: Sony Corporation, VAIO, N/A, C6052Q8U Antivirus: AVG Internet Security 2011, Updated and Enabled
An ex coworker of mine installed Windows 7 Pro on a pc for one of our clients, which was never activated. Now it's 30 days later and it's asking for the key. The sticker with the Windows 7 Pro OEM key on the side of the box is rather illegible. I input the key in an attempt to activate, but it fails. My issue is I don't know if I'm putting in the wrong key or the Windows 7 Pro that was installed is not OEM version. Is there an easy way for me to tell if it is OEM or not without having to reinstall?
