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slayerboy · 06-01-2007

If you haven't made the restore discs, call Compaq and ask them for restore discs. You might end up paying $30 or so for them, but it'll help you out. It does sound like you have a bad HD though, and yes, they can go bad anytime, doesn't have to be a huge ordeal. One HD out of 1000's can go bad. You're out of warranty most likely. Run over to Ultimate Boot CD - Overview and run a few of the hard drive tests that are on the boot cd.

If you can get the restore discs from Compaq, use the boot cd to write zeros to the drive a minimum of 2 times before you reinstall. I had some nasty partition table things happening that made me think the drive was bad, even when all the tests came back fine. Wrote zeros to the drive 3 times, took almost a full 2 days. The drive is still in use, even after a year after this happened.

Good luck!

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slayerboy Discussion starter Join Date: May 2007 Location: Holley, NY Posts: 69	Re: Help diagnosing problem. If you haven't made the restore discs, call Compaq and ask them for restore discs. You might end up paying $30 or so for them, but it'll help you out. It does sound like you have a bad HD though, and yes, they can go bad anytime, doesn't have to be a huge ordeal. One HD out of 1000's can go bad. You're out of warranty most likely. Run over to Ultimate Boot CD - Overview and run a few of the hard drive tests that are on the boot cd. If you can get the restore discs from Compaq, use the boot cd to write zeros to the drive a minimum of 2 times before you reinstall. I had some nasty partition table things happening that made me think the drive was bad, even when all the tests came back fine. Wrote zeros to the drive 3 times, took almost a full 2 days. The drive is still in use, even after a year after this happened. Good luck!