This day was a lot of excitement for me since my main harddrive did not allow me to boot.
Here is my attempt to give you an image of what happened and where I need your help:
- booting pc as usual: splash screen of bios/mainboard
- booting gets stuck while loading windows drivers
- random colourful pixels appearing in top line of screen
- me rebooting system... until getting into the same situation
- inserting windows disc to boot windows live
- running chkdsk with parameter f which takes hours
- a lot of unreadable data segments being detected which are also deleted
- trying to reboot Windows 7 installation without success
- inserting ubuntu disc to boot ubuntu live
- mounting main hdd in order to access files
- every files are there as expected (also hidden and/or system files of Windows 7)
- checking Ubuntu's disk utility: Imminent HDD failure according to SMART data due to thousands of read errors and a bunch of bad sectors
- submitting 'sudo ntfsfix' in terminal which stops due to missing ntfs signature
So, here is the actual issue: Running Ubuntu I can view files on the concerned hdd normally even if the Windows as well as Linux tools tell me the harddrive is completely broken. It looks like it is simply the boot section of my hdd which prevents me from booting its Windows installation, so does it make sense to wipe all data except for my personal stuff in order to make it bootable again? On the other hand I wonder if I can fix the corrupted masterfiletable and ntfs signature via Ubuntu live/Windows live...
thanks for any tips
Here is my attempt to give you an image of what happened and where I need your help:
- booting pc as usual: splash screen of bios/mainboard
- booting gets stuck while loading windows drivers
- random colourful pixels appearing in top line of screen
- me rebooting system... until getting into the same situation
- inserting windows disc to boot windows live
- running chkdsk with parameter f which takes hours
- a lot of unreadable data segments being detected which are also deleted
- trying to reboot Windows 7 installation without success
- inserting ubuntu disc to boot ubuntu live
- mounting main hdd in order to access files
- every files are there as expected (also hidden and/or system files of Windows 7)
- checking Ubuntu's disk utility: Imminent HDD failure according to SMART data due to thousands of read errors and a bunch of bad sectors
- submitting 'sudo ntfsfix' in terminal which stops due to missing ntfs signature
So, here is the actual issue: Running Ubuntu I can view files on the concerned hdd normally even if the Windows as well as Linux tools tell me the harddrive is completely broken. It looks like it is simply the boot section of my hdd which prevents me from booting its Windows installation, so does it make sense to wipe all data except for my personal stuff in order to make it bootable again? On the other hand I wonder if I can fix the corrupted masterfiletable and ntfs signature via Ubuntu live/Windows live...
thanks for any tips