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monse120186 · 05-20-2009, 12:58 PM

There is no Hard Drive diagnostics utility for my disk its a Toshiba, should I use a different one?

I ran the memtest it all seems ok.

I was trying something different and I installed Vista, the installation went thru no problem at all (only it did say when I selected my hard drive that it was going to fail soon); so vista installed on my Hard Drive and then the PC restarted and it was never able to boot. I'm guessing my Hard Drive faild... Vista did warn me but I didn't know it would be this soon. Anyway, I'm trying to install on a different Hard Drive to see if I have any luck.

05-20-2009, 12:58 PM	#5 (permalink)
monse120186 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 8 OS: Windows Vista Home Basic, 32 bits, SP1	There is no Hard Drive diagnostics utility for my disk its a Toshiba, should I use a different one? I ran the memtest it all seems ok. I was trying something different and I installed Vista, the installation went thru no problem at all (only it did say when I selected my hard drive that it was going to fail soon); so vista installed on my Hard Drive and then the PC restarted and it was never able to boot. I'm guessing my Hard Drive faild... Vista did warn me but I didn't know it would be this soon. Anyway, I'm trying to install on a different Hard Drive to see if I have any luck. __________________ "Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie, that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark egg on your face." Last edited by dai; 05-20-2009 at 06:57 PM.