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Old 01-28-2010, 03:44 PM
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I have a system that will not boot up completely 100% of the time.......ran ckdsk and HD Tune.....HD tune is showing multiple disk problems......I removed the drive (Dell Latitude) and was able to access there data.......are u guys imaging the drive and booting to the new hard drive via usb after installing a new drive? I am using acronis and saving the image on my 320 g usb drive.........
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Do you see the Windoze logo then the black screen? I just had one like that today, was Registry corruption. Boot to the UBCD for Windoze and then used the Registry Restore tool... Lookin' good now :-)
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Old 01-28-2010, 10:03 PM
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In a case like this i wouldn't esp if the hdd errors seem to be the cause of the boot up issues. I would still try it though for the experience to see what would happen.
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It shows the windows logo and the log in screen for the users but then just freezes.....I am looking for another hd for the unit.........
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Is it vista/win7 by any chance? I have had a similar problem where it was caused by google desktop. There were a good few posts on this on the net. Removed google desktop and voila it was working again.

Didn't have a banjaxed hdd though
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Its best that you scan drive with hdd regenerator in scan and repair it is really worth the money to have this in your toolkit.

I then follow up with a chkdsk /r if there are no flagged bad sectors then make an image, i have much more luck getting all data this way.
if i still get BSOD i then use ubcd and use the registry restore wizard.

If i still get a bsod then i try a system restore eitherin windows or use erd and do a system restore if i get a bsod still i do a OS repair.
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