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whilst trying to mount windows 7 to a virtual drive so that i could install the os using a usb stick as i dont have an optical drive for my new pc yet. I googled the subject and tried to install a program that would enable me to do so but when the file started to dl my computer died and would not get past the comand prompt..! It was as though the c: and e: drives had just gone.. Any way i took the drives out and used a recovery program to recover the important data but im left with a hard drive that im pretty certain is a gonna...

Not sure why im telling you all this but i guess i just wanted to share my stresssful wknd..
 
If you recovered data from the Hard disk be happy,This happened to me before with a 2 week old Laptop,Was home from college for the weekend,Went to Check my emails before I left for the bus and it wouldn't boot!I was more bothered about all my college notes I just lost but luckily after trying(Using the windows recovery cd) to search my hard disk(The broken one :cuckoo:) for the hard disk drivers I managed to copy everything important to my memory stick :D
 
This is one reason why I always partition my HDs before I install Windows.

I create 4 paritions for data etc so that if Windows ever becomes unrecoverable I simply delete and format the C: drive from an old ME startup disk.

Then a simple matter to re-install Windows and recover all my data.

So far in spite of Windows going down over the years I have never lost any data.

But I always do regular backups onto DVDs - just in case.
 
neil_g said:
partitions suck. just backup your data to an external drive.
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Everything in life sucks M8. I had a 500g external drive and after a year it packed up. A little resistor on the board, ripped out the drive connected sata cable, external is now internal and still going strong :shrug:
 
Make sure you back up your data!

I know I don't!

I'm currently running 4 partitions over 2 drives, If anything goes wrong, I'm screwed.

Now where did I put those blank DVDs?
 
What you described sounds a bit like what happens when you boot with a USB memory device attached - it becomes the default boot device until you unplug it again. I took both hard drives out of my computer once when it wouldn't boot then noticed I'd left a CF card in the card reader!
 
If you put the drive in another machine to recover the data.....how can it be a gonna?

Sounds like you just need to reformat and reinstall 7 using a DVD

Unless ive got the wrong end of the stick,.........
 
noneforit said:
If you put the drive in another machine to recover the data.....how can it be a gonna?

Sounds like you just need to reformat and reinstall 7 using a DVD

Unless ive got the wrong end of the stick,.........
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that is exactly what im trying at this very moment! Just to see...

To top it all off I borrowed an optical drive for my new pc to install os and it just comes up with a blue screen error and lots of tech error codes... This just is not funny anymore... Bl oody computers....
 
Hmmmm if its blue screening then I would suspect that there are corrupt sectors on the drive.

When you boot into the Windows 7 setup, there should be something called advanced drive configuration. Using that you can delete the partitions, create new ones and format them which should sort out the bad sectors ready for the new OS
 
well it worked! The suspect hard drive was formated and a new os installed.. And everything is running smooth again albeit in win 7 instead of xp...

the instal i attempted was on a brand new solid state hd.. And it worked the other day when i installed it on the same drive but my old pc...
 
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