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Alright i have a huge annoying problem. Ok it started when i had my computer running and nothing was wrong and i didnt have any programs running then i left and came back maybey a half an hour later and my computer was rebooting itself. When it started it would go to that screen that says there was a problem and it asks if you want to boot windows normally so when i click it my computer will restart and do it all over again. So i finnally gave up and reformatted my hard drive but it wont let me no matter what i do. It keeps on sayin my hard drive is dammaged or corrupt or it will just reboot itself. I have tried everything people have told me to do I even FDISK it. Still nothing works. What should I do? Should i just huck it out the window and buy a new one.(I dont have the money). I really want to save it but i dont know what else to do. Any ideas?
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try booting into windows and running CHKDISK to see if there are any errors on the hdd
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i cant boot into windows because it not on there anymore. <_< I wiped the hard drive so there is absolutly nothing on there but still the piece of shit says its corupt
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have you deleted you partitions and recreated them?
if you have i think a low level format is your only choice.....
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ok i deleted the partions and created them and all that but it still dosnt work and how do you do a low level format??
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be fore u try low leve format boot to dos and run fdisk with the /mbr switch to repair ur master boot record
ie fdisk /mbr
most newer hds should not be lowlevel formated only do it as last resort and make shure if u do that u use a low level format program from the manufacture
that made the hd
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what company hard drive do you have? go on there site and they'll have a tool for it on there....
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its a maxtor. What would there site be and what would i be looking for?
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have you tried what QuietSilence! said first? if not try it!
the maxtor one is called 'maxblast' (Link)
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