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    Clevo 900T spoilt, how do you fix it?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Stalvros, Mar 7, 2008.

  1. Stalvros

    Stalvros Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok its like this, one fine day there's short circuit -_-.
    My Clevo 900T was still on and it got forced shut down along with the rest of the electronic device in my room~

    Anyways, i cant seem to boot to windows anymore.
    Everytime it goes to windows it just shows this BLUE ERROR screen and it automatically restarts~

    What im trying to do now is actually to shove in the Windows XP Home cd and do a chkdsk instead to repair windows (you know how you like right click a drive and just select dsk repair?) It states that it has 1 damaged sector or something like that

    Anyways, I dont know what im supposed to do now :(
    If I had 2 computers + a PATA 2.5' case i would use the 2nd com to repair my HDD through the case but i dont. Any suggestions?
     
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    Do you have the XP Recovery running on the drive now? Can you get into safe mode?
     
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    Hmmmm, i cant~
    same thing happens~
    goes to blue screen and it just restarts
     
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    To confirm it is the hard drive i would do a memtest on your RAM. If that comes back ok, i think you will have to take the drive out of the system and put it in a 2.5" case for further diagnostics or backup.
     
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    hmmm, so there's no other way that i can perhaps repair the HDD by using the laptop alone and the windows XP cd?

    because i thought there's a way to repair windows just by using the XP cd
     
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    boot to the xp cd enter the recovery console by hitting the "r" key at the prompt on the install screen this will bring up a prompt, choose your installation usually 1 enter a administrator password if you have one
    then run chkdsk c: /r
    it should fix the drive to the extent it will boot windows, if the drive actually has a bad sector you might as well plan on replacing it
    hope this helps
    jim
     
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