Hard drive crashed -- need advice

**Reincarnate** · 04-9-2012, 07:18 PM

Windows 7 64-bit Acer laptop decided to randomly spaz on me. It hangs on the "Starting Windows" animation, BSOD's if I try Safe Mode, and hangs on the green loading bar if I try the Repair option or use a Windows 7 CD.

I can boot into my Ubuntu partition OK (which is tiny but still) so I am not convinced that something's borked with the physical drive. I think one of the boot sectors got ****ed.

However, I'm not aware of any good CD's I should use to boot with that'll let me repair any potentially damaged disk sectors or whatever. Advice?

04-9-2012, 07:18 PM	#1
Reincarnate x'); DROP TABLE FFR;-- Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 6,332	Hard drive crashed -- need advice Windows 7 64-bit Acer laptop decided to randomly spaz on me. It hangs on the "Starting Windows" animation, BSOD's if I try Safe Mode, and hangs on the green loading bar if I try the Repair option or use a Windows 7 CD. I can boot into my Ubuntu partition OK (which is tiny but still) so I am not convinced that something's borked with the physical drive. I think one of the boot sectors got ****ed. However, I'm not aware of any good CD's I should use to boot with that'll let me repair any potentially damaged disk sectors or whatever. Advice?

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