crash Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 So this morning I came down stairs to find my computer locked up. You wouldn't think that is a big deal every once and a while but my system has been running smoothly for almost two years now! I hadn't seen any evidence of ANY problems whatsoever before this. So, I have to do a hard-shutdown and when it boots back up the windows XP black screen seems to be taking forever. When I look back again my comp has re-started. WTF? Whatever so the XP screen is back again and seems to stop every once and a while, windows will not boot up. Crappy. So I restart again and try safe mode, no luck. I tried to boot into XP64, no luck. So my next step is to use my windows XP cd and repair the installation. So it gets to the screen where you select the drive to install to and it says disk one blah blah blah not-formatted total space 76,000, free space 75,000. That disk had about 60 GB of info on it!!!! Where did it all go and why? Now this wouldn't have been so bad because I usually keep a cloned disk on another drive but I had been playing around with XP64 on my spare and hadn't cloned my drive again. Shietty deal for me :angry2: Oh well, now I get to start fresh again, but what a pain in the assanine. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ste Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 Ya that does suck. However I think you learned you lession. Always keep backups. Im sure its possible to slave the drive and check if everything really is gone. Might want to do this first. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 not really "security issue here". what it sounds like is the hard drive took a dump on ya. I'm moving this out to the regular widnows section in hopes that others will give you some more feedback Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DECwakeboarder Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 is it chkdisk that you can run from repair console to check to see if the hd went bad? If you had a live linux cd you could run a scan on the drive to see if it were bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotdamojo06 Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 dont format and reinstall use a free program calledhandy recovery 1.0 if you that you install on a secondary hdd and plug it in and you can recover any file off your old messed up hdd....i just did this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crash Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 Yeah, too bad that I already wiped everything. It turned out ok though because all of my critical stuff was backed up, I just ended up having to go through mountains of cd's to find proggies that I needed. All in all it was a good thing to happen, my comp is way faster now and I don't have any junk on there I don't need. I would still like to know how this happened though. The HD is fine, no bad sectors or anything and it took the new os fine. I just wish I could remember if it locked up while perfect disk was defragging my main drive...... that would explain a lot Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ste Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 The drive could be going bad. You will know this if Bad sectors start poping up or you get errors that involve "file not found" or "Sector Not Found". You can preform check disk on it to check. If it got a particulary nasty trojan, that could also delete your data. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 STE, there's litterally a dozen different things tha6t COULD cause a problem like this. however we're not on that subject, we're on the subject of how to fix it. which now isn't an issue since he went ahead and formatted. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
flareback Posted December 27, 2005 Posted December 27, 2005 my sympathies to your loss, even if it was mainly time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ste Posted December 28, 2005 Posted December 28, 2005 I would still like to know how this happened though. The HD is fine, no bad sectors or anything and it took the new os fine. I just wish I could remember if it locked up while perfect disk was defragging my main drive...... that would explain a lot 606064[/snapback] This is where he asks how or why it could happen. STE, there's litterally a dozen different things tha6t COULD cause a problem like this. however we're not on that subject, we're on the subject of how to fix it. which now isn't an issue since he went ahead and formatted. 606111[/snapback] And Last Time I checked, its nice to read a whole post and not jump to conclusions on what someone wants to know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted December 28, 2005 Posted December 28, 2005 Read your PM STE. if you format and the problem goes away you can rule out hardware. if you format and reinstall any traces of software issues are gone too. see what I'm talking about? tough to diagnose when the evidence is GONE. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Raven65 Posted December 28, 2005 Posted December 28, 2005 Read your PM STE. if you format and the problem goes away you can rule out hardware. if you format and reinstall any traces of software issues are gone too. see what I'm talking about? tough to diagnose when the evidence is GONE. 606718[/snapback] Kudos! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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