My computer doesn't have a problem

[DGuller]

Just kidding, of course it does.  A fucking big one at that.  Somehow my hard drive is corrupted, or so it seems.  I started having problems yesterday, so I did a full checkdisk this morning, and it only made things worse.  After checkdisk completed after many hours, my Windows couldn't start, it went into that perpetual rebooting mode.  Argh, how the fuck does that happen to a 1.5 month old hard drive?

I installed another copy of Vista onto the SSD flash drive that I just bought, and that's how I can work on this computer while I consider my options.  For some reason my PC can't start without a Windows setup disk, probably due to me not doing some step to dual-boot properly.

Man, it's like I'm Mr. Death to every computer component that comes in contact with me.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Interesting that a chkdsk could fuck up Windows.  Have you tried starting in Safemode? 

Some vendors have diagnostics you can run upon bootup.  Some, in fact, are  abitch to make a return to without getting some lameass error message.

[DGuller]

Interesting that a chkdsk could fuck up Windows.  Have you tried starting in Safemode? 

Some vendors have diagnostics you can run upon bootup.  Some, in fact, are  abitch to make a return to without getting some lameass error message.

Yep, tried to start every which way, same thing.  Tried the repair tool on the Windows setup disk, it said it fixed something twice, to no actual effect.  Upon a third time it gave up and said that it couldn't fix what was wrong.

I guess the next thing to try would be to reinstall Vista on top of the corrupted version.

[DGuller]

Another puzzling thing is that my hard drive seems perfectly accessible, although I have no way of checking the integrity of the files on it.

[Grey Fox]

Sounds like it's windows that is the problem. Maybe it cant find boot.ini anymore?

[Barrister]

My computer doesn't have a problem.

[starbright]

I heard that running checkdisk just makes things worse if the drive is broken and you should check SMART before you try.

[DGuller]

Sounds like it's windows that is the problem. Maybe it cant find boot.ini anymore?

No, there was definitely something wrong with the hard drive, even before Windows refused to boot.  I reinstalled Vista onto the hard drive, and so far so good.  Unfortunately reinstalling Vista kind of pushes you back to square one, which I hoped wouldn't happen.  I have to reinstall all the programs to run them again.  I still have no idea what went wrong in the first place.

[DGuller]

I heard that running checkdisk just makes things worse if the drive is broken and you should check SMART before you try.

What's SMART?

[Ideologue]

My computer doesn't have a problem.

Yes it does.  It's a Mac, and nothing can ever fix that.

[Threviel]

And here I thought that this was about you getting a Mac.

[DGuller]

And here I thought that this was about you getting a Mac.

I'm not comfortable enough with my lack of masculinity to go that route.

[MadImmortalMan]

Interesting that a chkdsk could fuck up Windows.  Have you tried starting in Safemode? 

If the problem is physical (bad sectors) then chkdsk or any similar operation that involves working the drive can make it worse very fast.

[starbright]

What's SMART?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

I thought you built computers.

[DGuller]

What's SMART?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

I thought you built computers.

I only built one computer, and it may not be an unqualified success, given the existance of this thread.