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Old 04-08-2008, 10:20 PM
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D*#@ Windows!
Just came in from a business trip. Sat down at my home desktop PC and saw "Avast Antivirus needs to restart your operating system". Ok - I've got 5 minutes to waste, so I click "OK". The system cycles and the Windows loading screen comes up with the little squares tripping across the screen for 10 seconds and then the screen goes black and the machine reboots again!

I've been at this for two hours now(so much for 5 minutes) and I'm typing this on my employers laptop. The install CD doesn't give me the "Repair" option and bootcfg /repair hasn't gotten me anywhere either. Running chkdsk right now, but I don't have high hopes for it. I figure something in the Avast update screwed boot.ini - may have to edit that manually next...

I'm ready to dump the Windoze OS and go for ubuntu...
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Old 04-08-2008, 10:32 PM
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Lovely - chkdsk found "unrecoverable errors". Looks like I'll be picking up a hard drive tomorrow...
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Lovely - chkdsk found "unrecoverable errors". Looks like I'll be picking up a hard drive tomorrow...
WAIT!!! Download or find a program called "HD-Regenerator". It will boot off a CD and fix your hard-drive hardware level errors. The guy who created this program needs to be given a nobel prize. I can't tell you how many drives I have fixed this way.

Let us know of the success. This will work for the Mac lovers too as it does not care what file system you have on the drive.
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Old 04-10-2008, 06:44 AM
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WAIT!!! Download or find a program called "HD-Regenerator". It will boot off a CD and fix your hard-drive hardware level errors. The guy who created this program needs to be given a nobel prize. I can't tell you how many drives I have fixed this way.

Let us know of the success. This will work for the Mac lovers too as it does not care what file system you have on the drive.
Good, another useful post in this thread. Getting really tired of the "duh, get a Mac" solution to a hard disk problem.

FYI. The program is called HDD Regenerator.
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Old 04-10-2008, 04:07 PM
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WAIT!!! Download or find a program called "HD-Regenerator". It will boot off a CD and fix your hard-drive hardware level errors. The guy who created this program needs to be given a nobel prize. I can't tell you how many drives I have fixed this way.

Let us know of the success. This will work for the Mac lovers too as it does not care what file system you have on the drive.
Thanks for the tip MiCkEy, but the program cost a couple bucks more than I paid for a 160bg WD Caviar yesterday. Since I had another one of these Baracudas die on me a few months back, I'd just as soon replace it.

Replaced the drive last night and installed XPPro. OS install went fine and, after finishing, the computer doesn't want to boot - hangs after POST 'bout 4 out of 5 tries. I checked and I'm a few rev's behind on the BIOS - will reflash it tonight.
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Old 04-08-2008, 10:41 PM
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Looks like you should be stopping by the Apple store tomorrow. But sorry to hear that. Will you be able to get data (hopefully not corrupted) off the disk?














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so it was your HD that went bad? yikes, that blows...
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Interesting how people can blame Windows for a hard drive failure and then imply that buying a Mac is the solution to said hard drive failure.
That's like blaming BMW when you hear a song you don't like on the car radio and then deciding that buying a MB will fix it.
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Interesting how people can blame Windows for a hard drive failure and then imply that buying a Mac is the solution to said hard drive failure.
That's like blaming BMW when you hear a song you don't like on the car radio and then deciding that buying a MB will fix it.
It dosen't seem like it is solely a HD failure (correct me if I'm wrong) it seems like corruption with Windows and Avast. Then again, when my HD went sour, I didn't have any problems with my Mac. may have just been luck.
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It dosen't seem like it is solely a HD failure (correct me if I'm wrong) it seems like corruption with Windows and Avast. Then again, when my HD went sour, I didn't have any problems with my Mac. may have just been luck.
It takes some serious programming skills to kill a hard drive with software (can't be done).

Diogenes: The unrecoverable errors are likely due to damaged sectors occuring where critical OS data lives. Plain bad luck. Mount the old drive on another computer and try to copy as much personal files as possible. Then reformat to mark the bad sectors and perhaps the drive is still usable, though having failed once you might be better off with a new one anyway. Good luck!
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