Laptop Disk Error

radiomix · 11-21-2008, 01:58 PM

I have an Acer Tablet. When booting you receive the dreaded "Disk Error" that's all folks. Using a usb adapter I can connect the hard drive to my pc and browse the files on the bad drive. I've tried defraging, scanning for errors, but about 1-2% in it either hangs or has errors. I'm thinking the surface area on the disk is bad, but no matter. I can see most files and both partitions, the second partition I'm assuming is a recovery partition. I've purchased a new hard drive, but am at a stopping point as how I'm going to reload the recovery on the new hard drive and restore the tablet. Also, I have no recovery cd's to speak of. Girl friend's tablet, I think she dropped. Any help would be most appreciated.

**TriggerFinger** · 11-21-2008, 08:08 PM

By any chance you got the brand of HDD that you have? Check the HDD Diags link on my sig and download the appropriate diagnostic tool.

radiomix · 11-24-2008, 08:23 AM

Well, I really do think the hard drive is hosed..... A small dent can be seen on the hard drive panel on the bottom of the laptop. I was just read the instructions at the begin of this forum about using acer's erecovery. well the drive is so messed up it won't even let me run that. Should I just create similar partitions on the new hard drive and place the erecovery stuff on the secondary partition and try that again. The main reason for all this is I don't have a Microsoft XP Tablet edition cd to load on this tablet.

11-21-2008, 01:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
radiomix Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	Laptop Disk Error I have an Acer Tablet. When booting you receive the dreaded "Disk Error" that's all folks. Using a usb adapter I can connect the hard drive to my pc and browse the files on the bad drive. I've tried defraging, scanning for errors, but about 1-2% in it either hangs or has errors. I'm thinking the surface area on the disk is bad, but no matter. I can see most files and both partitions, the second partition I'm assuming is a recovery partition. I've purchased a new hard drive, but am at a stopping point as how I'm going to reload the recovery on the new hard drive and restore the tablet. Also, I have no recovery cd's to speak of. Girl friend's tablet, I think she dropped. Any help would be most appreciated.

11-21-2008, 08:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,144 OS: Windows 7 Beta, Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Laptop Disk Error By any chance you got the brand of HDD that you have? Check the HDD Diags link on my sig and download the appropriate diagnostic tool. __________________ DBAN - Memtest86+ - BartPE - Linux LiveCD - ImgBurn - HDD Diags - Everest HOW TO BURN AN ISO FILE

11-24-2008, 08:23 AM	#3 (permalink)
radiomix Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp	Re: Laptop Disk Error Well, I really do think the hard drive is hosed..... A small dent can be seen on the hard drive panel on the bottom of the laptop. I was just read the instructions at the begin of this forum about using acer's erecovery. well the drive is so messed up it won't even let me run that. Should I just create similar partitions on the new hard drive and place the erecovery stuff on the secondary partition and try that again. The main reason for all this is I don't have a Microsoft XP Tablet edition cd to load on this tablet.