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Meh same here with my WD...

I am just sending it in since they have a 3 year warranty and I bought it 2 years ago...

Try HDD Regenerator. It comes with the latest edition of Hiren's Boot CD, which you can get on thepiratebay.

EDIT:

JoshP wrote:

Look on seagate's support section, they have a couple of diagnostic/repair utilities. Can't remember the name of them off the top of my head, but i know they exist

It's called SeaTools.

Last edited by CrazeD (2009-01-04 16:05:43)

chkdsk /r

Im_Dooomed wrote:

Hakei wrote:

chkdsk /r

Ya, I actually remember trying that once, and I think it failed. But, could be a little more specific about this? This method is using the DOS command prompt right?

Yes.

Though someones chkdsk can mess up files, so make sure you back stuff up of course.

In my opinion, WD has a better toolset.

Im_Dooomed wrote:

faaaaaak, now my computer is sittin at at screen that says

Boot from CD/DVD:
Boot from CD/DVD:

NVIDIA Boot Agent 201.0462
Copyright (c) 2001-2004

After I got that error message, I decided to unplug the faulty HDD and restart. Now it wont boot to windows?

If that's where Windows is, of course it won't boot to Windows. You could plug it back in, pop your Windows disc into the cd drive and run a reinstallation. It won't overwrite your games or documents, but it will probably skip any bad sectors and can get you back up and running. From there, make a backup onto another drive (WD Tools is useful) and then go about with further repairs as required.

If you can boot Windows into safe mode, you could run Driver Cleaner, Abexo/Eusing Free Registry Cleaner(s), CCLeaner and anti-malware like Spybot to see if there's any problems along those lines. Careful with the registry cleaners, though; you can often just make it worse if you don't pay attention to what they're 'fixing.' I often find it easier to ghost over with another Windows installation rather than spend a day dicking around with third party programs.

I also find Secunia PSI to be particularly useful, but don't let it run actively when you aren't actually using it.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2009-01-04 17:44:13)

Im_Dooomed wrote:

faaaaaak, now my computer is sittin at at screen that says

Boot from CD/DVD:
Boot from CD/DVD:

NVIDIA Boot Agent 201.0462
Copyright (c) 2001-2004

After I got that error message, I decided to unplug the faulty HDD and restart. Now it wont boot to windows?

Check the bios that your Hdd with windows is set as a boot device.  Some BIOS's will jack this all up when adding and removing drives.

It wasn't the hard drive with windows on it. I tried putting the Acronis Disk Director back in and it loaded that. From there I clicked on an option 'Continue to boot Windows' and it loaded into windows. I'm a little nervous about that boot error, so now I'm backing up all my personal stuff.

I checked BIOS and the boot devices are set up as CD then Floppy, but there was another boot option and it was set up as my WD HDD. So...Still weird it didn't boot to windows.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

you sometimes have to remove all other options from the boot priority list to force the matter on the hard drive.

I'll give this a try and let ya know how it turns out.

Last edited by Im_Dooomed (2009-01-04 18:30:36)

I don't know how you have your drives hooked to your motherboard (whatever that is), but the reason it's faster may be due to the fact that the controller no longer has to search fruitlessly for a drive. Odd, but I've experienced something along those lines before.

Whatever the case may be, you can continue working on the problem now. If all else fails, it might even be an opportunity to move to SATA, if your board or a new rig budget allows.