Doesn't launch Windows, say Hard Drive defective
Few weeks ago, my dell laptop starts having problems with the hard drive. For example, when I saved something on it, if I want to read it few days later it couldn't.
Today, It doesn't even start, it goes to windows recovery and signals that the hard drive is defective. If I boot from the CD I can't reinstall windows. I'm trying to format it doing format c: but it's still at 0% since 40min.
What can I do ?
Thanks
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Does it still show up in the BIOS?
by oldturkey03
if you mean when I press F12, yes
by Eric
but is does not format and you can not reboot? Have you tried a Live CD like Puppy Linux (my favorite) or any other of the Live CD to see if they can access your drive? It does sound like you have a bad HDD
by oldturkey03
when I try to reinstall Windows it refuses and says "your hard drive is going to fail"
by Eric
no formatting fail too...
by Eric
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