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Yet another problem, but kinda major(for me)

Mushy · 2008-12-02 16:29:30

Ok, would be great if someone could sort out this trouble for me, and hopefully in the easiest possible way before, if I must, spend lts of money in a shop. Also need it sorted ASAP cos all my college notes are on it. Basically, when the laptop starts up, the grey screen shows up, saying 'Windows failed to start up…

02-12-2008 4:29pm

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Ok, would be great if someone could sort out this trouble for me, and hopefully in the easiest possible way before, if I must, spend lts of money in a shop. Also need it sorted ASAP cos all my college notes are on it.

Basically, when the laptop starts up, the grey screen shows up, saying 'Windows failed to start up successfully'. So I choose last good configuration, and it begins to load up. Then the dreaded blue screen appears, saying Windows has beenshut down to prevent further damage.

So in UCD today, the IT guy says its some hard-drive problem that they couldn't fix, so I went about the Dell website myself to atmpt to fix it. Followed all relevant instructions, even up to a stage where I was doing stuff that I sisnt know computers could do. Got to a stage where I was checking Diagnostics on it, and the error code came up as 1000-0142. But can't return to that Diagnostics thing.

So there any way of sorting this, or am I better off going to a shop and getting them to fix it up for me?

BTW, laptop is Dell Inspiron 1501, XP Media Edition.

Cheers for any possible help, although think I've gone as far as I can myself.

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#2 02-12-2008 5:03pm

TinCool

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Ring DELL

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#3 02-12-2008 5:14pm

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Your hard drive is dying mate, time for a replacement.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-130249.html

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#4 02-12-2008 10:58pm

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Username! wrote: »

Your hard drive is dying mate, time for a replacement.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-130249.html

Ah ha, that is bang on exactly it. And just over a year old too...oh the joys. Do they cost much/can they be repaired without losing all the data?

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#5 04-12-2008 9:48am

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get the hard drive out.... get it into an external caddy... get a recovery program and run it... and hope to hell it's not too late...

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

this software works...

my laptop wouldn't even recog.. my hd... so I did the above.. and worked like a dream...

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#6 04-12-2008 4:55pm

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Hold On - don't jump to conclusions just yet. It's very possible that it's just down to some bad sectors on the disk I got this problem (1000-0142) on a Dell a year ago and by running windows repair and a disk scan, it got cleaned up and the machine has ran fine ever since.

I did do a backup at the time though just in case....

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