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gothic_assassin - 30 Mar 2006 16:41 GMT
Hello.
Recently my i was getting the Blue screen of death looping on my laptop with
Windows XP Home, so i tryed to recover it using the console, to no prevail,
so i reinstalled windows, which went fine,  untill the next time i turned it
on when it did the same thing. So i tryed to reinstall windows again but it
came up with the message, ''the disk contains one or more unrecoverable
errors''. So I replaced the hard drive tryed to install windows, but it came
up with the same message. Any thoughts?
Ron Martell - 30 Mar 2006 21:08 GMT
>Hello.
>Recently my i was getting the Blue screen of death looping on my laptop with
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>errors''. So I replaced the hard drive tryed to install windows, but it came
>up with the same message. Any thoughts?

Go to the hard drive manufacturer's web site and download their free
diagnostic utility to check out the hard drive itself.

It is not impossible for two hard drives to develop defects at about
the same time.  However the odds are pretty high that there may be
some other factors at play as well.

What exactly was on the "Blue Screen Of Death"?  There are tens of
thousands (at least) of different possible error messages that can
appear on a BSOD and the vast majority of them have different causes
so it is impossible to speculate as to the actual cause of the error
without knowing the contents of the actual message.

Did you reformat the hard drive between the reinstalls?  If not try
doing this.  Formatting includes doing a test read of every data
cluster on the drive, and any defects should be flagged at this time.

It may well be that your computer has a problem with the hard drive
controller chip(s) on the motherboard, and this is causing errors when
reading the hard drive.

Good luck

Ron Martell     Duncan B.C.    Canada
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