xNathan

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Hi i just installed my win7 yesterday and i went to install adobe Photoshop cs5 and my whole pc just lagged and all of a sudden a bsod after that i did't get any bsod but today i left my pc on and run a virus scan and when i came back my pc has had bsod cause it said " your pc has shut unexpectedly" or something along that. So i don't know why i am getting bsod screens i even went to my event viewer and i got 99 events and there most errors and a few critical, i have no idea what to do i have had problems with bsod before on my laptop. so any one have a way to fix this?? i can attach my minidump files to this thread and i attached a screen shot of my event viewer.
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Very likely, I'm afraid that a new hard drive is going to be necessary since these 0x7a stops are caused by bad blocks and not any software that was installed (or not installed.)
Basically, they're indicative of a physically failing hard drive and any kind of format can not repair that.

If money is a concern, then trying to low level format the hdd and re-installing Windows, of course can be tried. There's nothing wrong with the attempt.

There is a hardware issue though. If it isn't the actual drive itself gone bad, it is the cooling of the laptop itself that has gone bad which is causing the hdd to work in temperatures it doesn't like.

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To the OP - Please make sure you run that chkdsk command as I've shown to above, in an...
The link I gave has all sorts of sizes and manufacturers. It's a general idea of what you need to replace with.
 


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