[Veridian]

Hi. Yesterday i was trying to install new Windows when i messed up my drivers and was forced to revert all the changes. This seems to have broken one of my hard drives (not the one with windows) and now i can't load into windows when that hard drive is switched to the motherboard.

Basically - it seems to have to broken/faulty clusters so its unreadable. I can't run "check disk" since i can't get into Windows. I was trying to create bootcd so i could run "check disk" before Windows tries to read from hard drive but im not sure how to do that, i've tried windows recovery but it also tries to read from hard drive before it actually loads, so that didn't work as well.

I think i need a way to run check disk before windows tries to read faulty hard drive or some other solution/software that can do that.

I've been trying to fix this issue for two days now and i could really use some help.

 

[spunk.funk]

On a different computer. Download the ISO image for Seatools in my signature. Burn the image to CD using IMGBurn also in my signature. Boot off of the newly created CD and run the Short and Long tests on the HDD in question.

 

[Rich-M]

You can run checkdisk (chkdsk /r) from a cmd prompt if you boot as if to safe mode tapping F8 continuously after pressing power button until you see the options to "Repair Your Computer".

 

[Veridian]

On a different computer. Download the ISO image for Seatools in my signature. Burn the image to CD using IMGBurn also in my signature. Boot off of the newly created CD and run the Short and Long tests on the HDD in question.

I've tried Seatools and it didn't do anything and it couldn't find any issues with a hard drive.

I've actually tried a lot of different tools, even some linux boot cd with some obscure utilities and nothing helped.

You can run checkdisk (chkdsk /r) from a cmd prompt if you boot as if to safe mode tapping F8 continuously after pressing power button until you see the options to "Repair Your Computer".

Unfortunately that didn't work as well - i couldn't get to console or safemode if i had faulty hard drive plugged in motherboard.

I found another solution after spending whole day and night at it -
had to unplug faulty drive from the motherboard, boot windows, manually schedule chkdsk via regedit in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager BootExecute

autocheck autochk /p \??\Q:

Shutdown pc, plug hard drive in, boot the pc and wait a long time till it read the disk and checked it.

Everything seems to be ok for the moment. So the issue is probably solved.

 

[Rich-M]

If checkdisk found a lot wrong, it usually is a good idea to replace the drive while you can still easily clone it, that will save a lot of time.

 

[Veridian]

If checkdisk found a lot wrong, it usually is a good idea to replace the drive while you can still easily clone it, that will save a lot of time.

I will have to upgrade my PC soon anyway. Im hoping it will last till lga 1150. Thx for advice though.