[fido123]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

I also need to re-mention that the boot manager is totally borked and throws all sorts of lovely errors when I try to boot Windows (my WUBI installation is also ****ed)

EDIT: If I buy a new laptop I am destroying this one with a hammer

Bad sectors are often a sign of the nearing death of a hardrive. Buy a new one I guess. If you want to recover data DO NOT boot your hardrive. Boot a liveCD of whatever and already have your backup media connected and back up stuff from there. You can access all files from your liveCD assuming you don't have any encrypted partitions.

I'm not really one for looking up deals but laptop hardrives are easy as hell to replace: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136278