disk issues

Hi All, I have Sony Vaio which is just 1 yr old. About a week before, I installed the latest updates windows 7. When I started the windows, I was able to log into the windows. But then, the system was very slow. So, I turned down the laptop. After that, a message appeared "A disk error...

I have Dell Inspiron 580s, which is 5 months old. I recovered the factory setting using the recovery CD i had created after the purchase. Now i am only able to see the C drive which has the OS and other partition (which has the data which I don't want to lose) is not shown. When I go to disk...

hello, new guy here. i've searched the web as well as this forum and haven't had any luck as of yet. I have an Asus K60IJ, I recently had a friend install the full version of win7 and office (laptop came w/ win7 but not full up. I am trying to re-install flight sim X, and it won't run the...

After the last windows 7 update a folder that I have got corrupted, unfortunately now I want to shrink the disk size but It wont let me because I have corrupted files -.- I've tried to put check disk to run on startup by the usual way and nothing, I've read like 10 different methods to make...

Hello everyone, I am experiencing a very strange and annoying problem. Specifically around 1,5 month ago my netbook turned itself off because of the empty battery, and i received a bluescreen when i've tried to start it again. First thing i've attempted to do was startup repair (worked like a...

Hello, my Windows 7 is not starting up on my HP Pavilion dv7-3160us. I tried startup repair, and this is the message i received: ''startup repair cannot repair this computer automaticqlly" problem evemt name: startup repair offline. Problem signature01and02: 6.1.7600.16385...

Hi all. :o I'm facing some problems with my C drive. Errors were said to be found in C drive during Error checking. However, I could not auto fix system errors when C drive is in use. Thus I've assigned a chkdsk upon start up. Here's the catch, the Chkdsk appeared for a sec and was...

So I recently installed win7 to my desktop which at the time had Ubuntu as the sole OS. I wanted all my stuff from Ubuntu after win7 install so I created an NTFS partition and moved all my crap there, wipe Ubuntu and did a clean install. So after I moved all my stuff from the NTFS patition to...

hi guys can anyone tel me if i can retrieve data from my 2x750gb (samsung Spinpoint)Hard disks that was at one point in raid 0 config (stripping) as this belonged to my old rig which used a separate hard disk for the OS(maxtor 80gb). Once this disk failed i just left it as it was. so its...

Hi. I'm trying to install Windows 7 Proffesional x64. I have this same fail when i'm choosing two others hard disks: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The disk may fail soon. If other hard disks are available, install Windows to another location." 1st disk - WD 160 GB 2nd disk - WD 40 GB

Hi, everyone.. i am a newbie here. and i wish to ask experts here to help me. i have a Notebook Asus N82 and i change my harddisk (5400rpm 640Gb) to 320Gb 7200rpm. I using Seagate hd to clone all files. and boot... it works normally except starting up when windows flag appear.. it will takes...

I just installed Win7 and was pleasantly surprised to find that it installed all the drivers for everything and it all worked fine with no problems, at first. I put in a new 1Tb drive for Win7 and saved the old drive in a USB housing to serve as a backup. I copied some program files off the...

Hello. Recently I decided to host my own online server on Minecraft. I decided to use most of my RAM with it (6 GB). I guess I overloaded my computer and something got pretty screwed up. Windows hangs at the start up screen now. It's been like this for the past 3 days, and I have gone through...

After switching on your computer received the error RPLUD is compressed. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart on a black screen with white writing when trying to boot into Windows. Also tried to system restore by inserting win 7 disk but its also not happening:(. I keep getting the following from all...

My brother accidentally put some folders in the found.000 folder. I dont know why he did that. All the folders contain pictures, games and movies. But when i tried to copy the folders back to their original places it says "cannot create or replace xxxx: Access is denied. Make sure the disc is...

Hi all, on start up i am getting, A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart", but when i press,"Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" , it always returns to" A disk read error occurred" . i also cant access safe mode (F8). Any help would be appreciated, thanks. James

My OS has developed a problem of links internal to email and sometimes other links do not work. IE8 which is part of Win 7 seems to be the problem. I have gone round and round on other forums but noone is able to fix the problem so I am left with re-installing the OS. Before you suggest I...

i was wondering if anyone could be of help to this matter ive been trying to search some info about if there is any way to get this to work on 32 bit its the 5th edition for oregon trail i put the disk in and it doesnt load and nothing pops up..@-)

Have been using W7 for a couple of months - last night it decided to reboot and will not complete the reboot. Tried to repair using the W7 tools without success. I ran Sea tools and it found 4 bad sectors and fixed them. No change so far. It still will not start and go to the desktop. The...

Randomly my computer turned off. Turned it back on and when it goes Verifying DMI Pool Data it says "Disk error found". Figured it was an operating system flaw and and after repairing failed, I decided to reformat. When I try to reinstall Windows it comes up with "c:\boot\bootstat.dat is...