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 Posted: Sat, 28th Apr 2012 22:13 Post subject: Sister old laptop broke. hdd problem. |
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Hi guys.
My sister old(OLD) sony vaio laptop broke. She basicly dropped it (like 1000000th time since last 10years she have it)
and it fuckd up windows.
It seems that everything is allright with the laptop itself, but just the hdd have now some bad sectors or something wrong on c:
it is a 40gb hdd. She had 6gb partition for C: and rest 32 for D:
When running xp installer, it shows C and D properly named and sized. I tried to formatting the C partition but it always gets stuck at 7%. Tried to deletind C partition and creating it in various sizes (hoping I might shake off broken sectors to "unpartitioned space" but no go. The isntaller drops at 11,12, 17, 20 % etc.)
The point is that I don't want to do anything with D: She have some data there and who knows. Maybe D: is working allright.
But since there is 7gb of space left according to xp installer, I've tried to install it on that partition but stupid installer wouldnt even let me do it explaining that its not a proper install partition.
I would just get the hdd out and fiddle with it on my pc but The damn tiny screws on this piece of shit are so fragile that I can't unscrew 2 of them. Its over 10yo so thats not a suprise at all.... and it was used when she got it then so someone was dong something with those screws since they are messed up.
So is there any way I could install xp on there, wihout taking out the hdd and withour loosing anything on D: ?
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| Posted: Sat, 28th Apr 2012 23:21 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Apr 2012 00:13 Post subject: |
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KC, let me recommend a nice tool called SpinRite. It excels exactly at fixing problems like that. Try running it on the damaged HDD (you can boot it from CD or USB) and see if that helps - it probably will.
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Apr 2012 15:43 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Apr 2012 17:19 Post subject: |
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HDD Regenerator 2011 is another app recommended for this.
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| Posted: Sun, 29th Apr 2012 19:04 Post subject: |
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