hard drive??

erichq · 10-14-2006, 02:32 PM

i bought a acer aspire 3000 about a year ago and just the other day it crashed. i ended up getting the "blue screen of death". i put my system recovery cd's in and it got to about 13% and it slowed down. really slow...slow as in a hour to go from 13 to 20%. during this time it says something like marking bad cluster XXXXX to XXXXX as bad. (X's are a number). it marks a bunch as a bad cluster. after it gets past that it works fine. i start it up and then boom, it restarts. up comes a screen that asks me to start in safe mode, safe mode w/ command prompt, last known good configuration, or start windows normally. all of the ones with safe mode won't work. last known good configuration tells me i'm missing files and need to reinstall them using the recovery cds (doesn't work though), and with the start windows normally it ends up restarting and going to the same screen.

any ideas????

**carsey** · 10-14-2006, 02:33 PM

Stay with your original topic where you were recieving help please.

erichq · 10-14-2006, 02:42 PM

mmk...

**carsey** · 10-14-2006, 02:43 PM

explain please??

erichq · 10-14-2006, 02:44 PM

wow..nevermind

**laboye** · 10-14-2006, 02:54 PM

Please have this thread locked. If you have another thread in laptops, stick with it. If not, scratch my first sentence.

10-14-2006, 02:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
erichq Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 8 OS: XP	hard drive?? i bought a acer aspire 3000 about a year ago and just the other day it crashed. i ended up getting the "blue screen of death". i put my system recovery cd's in and it got to about 13% and it slowed down. really slow...slow as in a hour to go from 13 to 20%. during this time it says something like marking bad cluster XXXXX to XXXXX as bad. (X's are a number). it marks a bunch as a bad cluster. after it gets past that it works fine. i start it up and then boom, it restarts. up comes a screen that asks me to start in safe mode, safe mode w/ command prompt, last known good configuration, or start windows normally. all of the ones with safe mode won't work. last known good configuration tells me i'm missing files and need to reinstall them using the recovery cds (doesn't work though), and with the start windows normally it ends up restarting and going to the same screen. any ideas????

10-14-2006, 02:54 PM	#6 (permalink)
laboye TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hollywood, FL Posts: 1,246 OS: Windows xp Pro/Vista Beta 2/Ubuntu 6.06 LTS My System	Please have this thread locked. If you have another thread in laptops, stick with it. If not, scratch my first sentence. __________________ Repair Windows XP Guide --- Resolutions Crazy Computer that I'm saving up for::Antec P180 Case;PC Pwr&Cooling 1kW Quad SLI PSU;Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe;Intel Core2 XE X6800;Corsair TWIN2XP2048 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM;2xAsus GeForce 7950 GX2;BFG PhysX Accel.;IBM DVD-RAM/Plextor DVD±RW;Seagate 750GB HD 7200RPM;WDX 150GB 10000RPM;Vigor Monsoon TEC Cooler

10-14-2006, 02:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
carsey Moderator, TSF Articles Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hunwick, Co. Durham England Posts: 10,671 OS: XP Pro SP3 My System	Stay with your original topic where you were recieving help please.

10-14-2006, 02:42 PM	#3 (permalink)
erichq Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 8 OS: XP	mmk...

10-14-2006, 02:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
carsey Moderator, TSF Articles Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hunwick, Co. Durham England Posts: 10,671 OS: XP Pro SP3 My System	explain please??

10-14-2006, 02:44 PM	#5 (permalink)
erichq Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 8 OS: XP	wow..nevermind