I have reason to suspect my main rig / the hard-drive is dead
Sometime in between the car-trip home from Uni for Xmas and setting the system back up at home, the computer has become kaputt. When trying to start-up Windows gives me the 'Windows has failed to start, this could be because of recent hardware/software changes...' blah blah error message, and will not even start in Safe Mode (it cycles through about half the essential system drivers and then stops). It asks for the Vista disc/recovery disc but alas, one did not foresee this disaster over the Xmas holiday and left all my driver and installation discs in my Uni room .
I'm currently torrenting an image of the x64 Vista Recovery disc but I have little faith. I'm quite sure some hardware or hard-drive has failed, which equally sucks because I've just lost about 25Gb of media that I was too lazy to recently back up! Argh! I was actually concerned on the way home that the repeated small-shaking and bumps of the journey would affect the hard-drive, but really I'm a blank right now- Windows error messages are so vague and uninformative! The computer has been idle for a day in a pretty cold room, but I can't imagine anything as minor as that would total some hardware / a hard-drive.
Anyone else here had this message previously? Is the Recovery disc literally a messiah of hope? Or am I more reasonable in thinking that the circumstances (i.e. the journey home and transporting of my system) are the main cause in killing xy hardware? Dammit, liiiive! This is not what I need over the Xmas season, poop.
Sometime in between the car-trip home from Uni for Xmas and setting the system back up at home, the computer has become kaputt. When trying to start-up Windows gives me the 'Windows has failed to start, this could be because of recent hardware/software changes...' blah blah error message, and will not even start in Safe Mode (it cycles through about half the essential system drivers and then stops). It asks for the Vista disc/recovery disc but alas, one did not foresee this disaster over the Xmas holiday and left all my driver and installation discs in my Uni room .
I'm currently torrenting an image of the x64 Vista Recovery disc but I have little faith. I'm quite sure some hardware or hard-drive has failed, which equally sucks because I've just lost about 25Gb of media that I was too lazy to recently back up! Argh! I was actually concerned on the way home that the repeated small-shaking and bumps of the journey would affect the hard-drive, but really I'm a blank right now- Windows error messages are so vague and uninformative! The computer has been idle for a day in a pretty cold room, but I can't imagine anything as minor as that would total some hardware / a hard-drive.
Anyone else here had this message previously? Is the Recovery disc literally a messiah of hope? Or am I more reasonable in thinking that the circumstances (i.e. the journey home and transporting of my system) are the main cause in killing xy hardware? Dammit, liiiive! This is not what I need over the Xmas season, poop.
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