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Need Some Help With My Laptop - Supervisor - 09-25-2014
So My Laptop's HDD Had A Read And Write Error A While Back. And I Am Trying To Fix It Today, And I Am Using UBCD And I Ended Up Wiping The Drive With A Tool Called 'Active KillDisk Free Edition V4.1.2393' Located In The Menu By Going To HDD>Disk Wiping>Active KillDisk Free Edition V4.1.2393
And Now When I Try To Format The Drive It Wont Read it. But It Can See That The Hard Drive Is There. Any Tips?
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - Eclipse - 09-25-2014
You should've booted from killdisk instead. Try to just install an OS via CD/USB and see if it works. You need to elaborate more on your setup and what state what is in right now.
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - Supervisor - 09-25-2014
(09-25-2014, 07:27 PM)Eclipse Wrote: You should've booted from killdisk instead. Try to just install an OS via CD/USB and see if it works. You need to elaborate more on your setup and what state what is in right now.
I Have A Copy Of Windows 7 Enterprise On A Disk I Made. Went To 'Repair your computer' And Doesn't Seem To Pick Up The Hard Drive.
And Boot From Killdisk? I Could Do That.
*Edit: I Think Its The Disks Problem. Ill Try Getting Another Usb And Getting Windows 7 On There.
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - Eclipse - 09-26-2014
(09-25-2014, 08:30 PM)Supervisor Wrote: I Have A Copy Of Windows 7 Enterprise On A Disk I Made. Went To 'Repair your computer' And Doesn't Seem To Pick Up The Hard Drive.
And Boot From Killdisk? I Could Do That.
*Edit: I Think Its The Disks Problem. Ill Try Getting Another Usb And Getting Windows 7 On There.
Try booting a Live Linux OS then you can diagnose properly.
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - Supervisor - 09-26-2014
(09-26-2014, 10:39 AM)Eclipse Wrote: Try booting a Live Linux OS then you can diagnose properly.
Okay, So I Did This Morning, But How Would I 'Diagnose Properly' Is There A Program Or What?
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - Eclipse - 09-26-2014
(09-26-2014, 05:22 PM)Supervisor Wrote: Okay, So I Did This Morning, But How Would I 'Diagnose Properly' Is There A Program Or What?
Well, I normally use WHDD.
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - Supervisor - 09-26-2014
(09-26-2014, 05:35 PM)Eclipse Wrote: Well, I normally use WHDD.
Okay, I'll Try It Out And Shoot You A Pm If Something Goes Wrong, Is That Cool?
Because I'm Really Trying To Get Back Into Music And It Would Help Even More With personal Projects.
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - Eclipse - 09-26-2014
(09-26-2014, 05:41 PM)Supervisor Wrote: Okay, I'll Try It Out And Shoot You A Pm If Something Goes Wrong, Is That Cool?
Because I'm Really Trying To Get Back Into Music And It Would Help Even More With personal Projects.
Yeah, that's alright.
P.S. Please stop capitalizing each word, it's painful.
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - Supervisor - 09-26-2014
(09-26-2014, 05:57 PM)Eclipse Wrote: Yeah, that's alright.
P.S. Please stop capitalizing each word, it's painful.
Okay, I'll try.
RE: Need Some Help With My Laptop - roger_smith - 09-26-2014
If your drive is having read errors, the physical hard drive itself is likely starting to fail. Find out what type of hard drive is in your system then go and get the drive test tool for that manufacture. For example, Seagate has a program free to use called Seatools that can run various tests on the drive. Additionally, most Linux distros have a drive utility you can run SMART analysis on and get SMART data. Boot up a LiveCD and run the checks on your hard drive.
It sounds to me like there is a good chance the physical drive itself is bad.