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ValentineWiggin
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24 Jun 2012, 11:42 pm

Long story short:
something (not a euphemism- I truly don't know what) FUBARed my laptop (Toshiba running Vista)
and now it's not recognizing my hard drive.


Ideas?


Long story long:
I left to go to the gym, with my FB page open (no active processes otherwise, other than systems) and come back and it says it's "loading files", followed by a message about files being either missing or corrupt.


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24 Jun 2012, 11:48 pm

Reformat or spend hours figuring out what virus it is. I once downloaded an album and got a virus from it, and the virus faked a hard drive failure. Then I was like "wait a minute, if my hard drive was broken, then my computer wouldn't boot at all..."

I just got fed up with Windows after that and switched to Linux and haven't switched back. You probably got hacked due to not having adequate firewall, and yeah...

Just reformat and put a fresh copy of Windows on, unless you wanna spend time in the command line and deleting random system files and reading guides off another computer while yours is screwed up.

Also, a surefire way to detect if the hard drive is broken, is get Linux bootable from a flash drive, and then run the computer from that, and see what works. My friend always keeps bootable Linux on a flashdrive with him for this reason.



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25 Jun 2012, 12:16 am

Long story not long enough.
Maybe the harddisk is failing. I would try running diagnostics on the HDD.


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