Today I was watching a video and it just turned off. Now when it tried to turn back on it'll get to the Windows splash screen with the progress bar and just restart. :( Starting in SafeMode freezes at c:\windows...\crcdisk.sys
Is this a Vista (Home Premium) issue, a hardware issue? Any thoughts?
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 21, 2008, 01:59:24 PM
Today I was watching a video and it just turned off. Now when it tried to turn back on it'll get to the Windows splash screen with the progress bar and just restart. :( Starting in SafeMode freezes at c:\windows...\crcdisk.sys
Is this a Vista (Home Premium) issue, a hardware issue? Any thoughts?
I'm not sure if this helps you any, but I own the same OS on another computer and it will randomly restart, or shut it's self down...
I just tried to reformat, I couldn't :(.
I either got an error about missing files and then a BSOD, or it just went to BSOD. Who knows ... I figure I'll send the POS in. Monitor too, it's blurry
The Windows Install Disk has a built in Repair Utility which should fix everything (Exclusive to the Windows Vista Install DVD)
I already formatted my drive ... still won't install ... sad.
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 21, 2008, 04:27:40 PM
I already formatted my drive ... still won't install ... sad.
Try low level formatting it from a linux live CD, then installing windows. Sometimes that fixes my couple windows machines.
How would I go about that?
When reformatting I've just been inserting my Vista disc ... Vista isn't running, the disc is :(
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 21, 2008, 06:31:58 PM
How would I go about that?
Grab the first Slackware install ISO (poke (http://www.slackware.com/getslack/)) and boot it. When it gives you a terminal and says "type setup to continue", type cfdisk. Go through all your partitions, hit
delete, then
create a new partition of type NTFS.
Why would you download a 700MB ISO for... cfdisk? :/
That's like saying "i downloaded judas priest's discography for the painkiller song."
Well, at least HP tech support is in America!
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 21, 2008, 10:20:22 PM
Well, at least HP tech support is in America!
Uhhh... not with my last experience. :P
Me 20 minutes ago: I attempted to reformat but keep getting errors
Me 15 minutes ago: I formatted the main partition to reformat, there shouldn't be anything on it
Her (American woman) about 2 minutes ago: Did you format your partition?
Me: *slaps head*
If you're talking to the first person who answered, keep in mind that they're just reading a script. It's to filter out the easy problems from the more complex ones that are passed to the second-tier support.
Running extended SMART test :-\
Fun?
That is why I IMMEDIATELY ask for a senior technician once I give them my info. Usually they comply and transfer my call.
Quote from: Newby on January 21, 2008, 08:27:45 PM
Why would you download a 700MB ISO for... cfdisk? :/
That's like saying "i downloaded judas priest's discography for the painkiller song."
Who knows, could turn out like "I donloaded judas priest's discography for the painkiller song, and liked all of it, and actually love NWOBHM now."
(Basically equates to Crazed switching over to linux.)
Quote from: chuck on January 21, 2008, 06:16:37 PM
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 21, 2008, 04:27:40 PM
I already formatted my drive ... still won't install ... sad.
Try low level formatting it from a linux live CD, then installing windows. Sometimes that fixes my couple windows machines.
Be careful! The term "low level formatting" is used very loosely! What you want is to write all zeroes to the disk, which is far less drastic than low level formatting. Low-level formatting is essentially defining the physical locations of tracks and sectors of the disk; it's done in the factory at the birth of the drive, and will last the entire life of the drive, save extenuating circumstances.
The ATA protocol does not specifically define a procedure for LLF-ing, but it also does not expressly disallow writing to the locations where one would write during an LLF when using the lowest possible level of write instructions (hence the name). It's common to find LLF utilities built in to the BIOS management menu of very old motherboards, from an age where hard-drives were both very expensive, and susceptible to the effects of physical expansion, due to heat, or ware on the cylinders. The utilities would ask questions like, in so many words, "how big would you like your hard-drive to be?" before demolishing everything you thought you knew about bits.
Changing windows disks worked ... wtf?
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 22, 2008, 09:54:43 AM
Changing windows disks worked ... wtf?
Wow. Must have had some sort of corruption?
But on a disk? Weirdness
Quote from: CrAz3D on January 22, 2008, 09:54:43 AM
Changing windows disks worked ... wtf?
Glad I suggested it.
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Quote from: CrAz3D on January 22, 2008, 09:54:43 AM
Changing windows disks worked ... wtf?
Glad I suggested it.
Actually, you suggested using a disk, period. My disk was failing ... then I switched and it worked :-\
Did you end up using a disk? Yea.
Was I supposed to drive down there, inspect your disk, and deem it unfit to format the disk? I even suggested running the Repair tool, which probably would of yielded much more desirable results.
Then everyone else said "lol Linux"