I NEED YOUR help now or IM SCREWED

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!!

I bought this asus g50v and its jinxed ive had to reformat using recovery endless times.

now windows kicks me out after updating my GENIUNE windows software and i clicked activate later.

aero is gone and half my programs have vanished.

what to do??

even windows prorams have vanished like paint, sound recordrer etc...
the start menu is empty !!
my wallpaper is gone, account avatar is gone, its like half the OS is deleted.

EDIT: I ALSO get corrupt file for everything in programfilesx86/microsfot appdata or smth

 

well, it's activation.
Just make sure you activate it right away and such.....

 

so wait is your vista activated now or not? did you get the pop up saying it was not genuine and to activate now? if so and you click activate later vista goes into reduced function mode and blocks use of most things and usually only allows internet use. if you cant activate online simply pick activate over the phone and put in you area in the pull down box and call them it only takes 10-20minutes

 

i acrivatd it manually now re-entered the key and it worked.

my files are still missing and half the programs dont work.

everything is missing in the programs in start menu.

windows defender does not start, and i get corrupt/unreadable file in c:/programdata/microsoft.

help?

 

When you do a recovery install, your previously installed programs are suppose to go missing/deleted/overwriteen.

 

What were the errors you were getting that caused you to reformat so many times? It sounds like your hard drive might be bad.

 

When you repaired did you use the same user name as it was before?

 

hello everyone thanks for the replies.

1st format: I could not wait when the pc was hibernating so i unplugged and BAM windows gone // my fault.

2nd format: Program files /common files is corrupt = nothing works. not sure what caused this, i panicked and formatted.

this time, c rogramdata/microsfot is corrupt, only way to fix is run disk check utility.
it failed to run, after googling for more than 6 hours i was finally able to get a solution that worked for me, the utility ran and fixed TONS of errors and now i got access back to all directories, all missing programs links are back and everything works fine, actually, the activation thing was a symptom or caused by the main issue of corrupt DIR, not the problem itself.

I hope this will fix my hd problems forever, and i think it probably will because i never ran chckdisk before.

 

I have to concur with Padme - I'd bet good money your hdd is dying a slow, agonizing death, and each time you reinstall, that installation quickly becomes corrupt as more and more bad sectors blossom on the hdd's physical disk(s).

Backup what you still have now, then d/l and run the hdd diagnostic available from the website of whomever manufactured your hdd - that will almost certainly show that the drive is approaching imminent failure.

Other than the corruption caused by your impatience with hibernate, everything else you describe sounds exactly like what happened to me the three times (and counting ) that my hdd has eaten itself up.

 

But i got it fixed on harddiks check utiltiy in windows and now it shows my HD is clean.

does that mean its fixed?

is there a program to check?

 

No, it doesn't. Chkdsk just puts everything right as it finds it (or as right as it can manage) and quarantines bad sectors, but cannot read the diagnostics on the drive itself to tell whether or not the bad sectors are due to the drive failing or not.

Find out what company made your hard drive, go to that company's website and, under the support webpage, find the hdd diagnostic utility (all the major mfrs provide it free). Download that and run it, and that should tell you whether or not your hard drive is about to fail, is otherwise out of spec, or just had a rash of bad sectors.

 

Thanks, I will be doing that.

 

OK I've done all checks using "Seatools" a program by Seagate that manufactured my harddisk and I have passed the numerous tests they had.

Does THAT mean I am clean?

 

It's a good sign, but it isn't a 100% clean bill of health - sorry, but once a drive does something funky, it will almost never be 100% acceptable.

If you feel comfortable with the results of the test, then go ahead and reinstall on the existing drive - just keep a really good backup (perhaps a cloned image made right after you finish the installation) that you can use to restore the installation quickly if the drive turns out to be a bum drive.

 

I'd be buying a new drive or getting a warranty replacement by now.

 

"then go ahead and reinstall on the existing drive"

I think I either failed to say it explictly or you did not notice it, but I mentioned that when i was finally able to get check disk to work, it found errors, lots of them, and said it fixed them, and now all those restricted DIRs are back and everything seems fine.

anyway, warranty, if the laptop works is out of the question, I have to ship all the way to the U.S kind of impossible being without a laptop in college.

thanks for your replies, people not gonna love this topic sticking to the first page too long so i will stop replying, ill PM you instead guys.

 

With all due respect, the emphasis should be on " seems" - as in, appearances can be deceiving. If I recall correctly, your system suddenly started acting as if half the OS had been deleted, and you started getting all sorts of warnings about corrupted files, no? I also seem to recall that you said chkdsk fixed "TONS" of things when you ran it, no?

If that's the case, then the first point to emphasize is that Chkdsk may have repaired the file system, but that does not mean that it recovered every file fragment that was initially lost; I can attest to that through personal experience of having tried to fix an XP installation on a slowly failing drive using Chkdsk. Basically, if Chkdsk cannot find a particular fragment - Fragment B - but can find the ones that come before and after the missing fragment - Fragments A and C, respectively - it will, as far as I can tell, basically resect the file by connecting Fragment A to Fragment C thereby essentially abandoning Fragment B. That will give you a file system that looks like it still contains all the files it had before the incident that necessitated runnning Chkdsk; however, if you try to open all of those files there is a good chance that you would get an error of some sort for some of those files. In my case, Chkdsk restored all the files, but as basically empty pointers that contained nothing more than the file name - none of the actual data was recovered, and I would get an error each time I tried to open one of the affected files.

The second point to emphasize is that you have a gimped hard drive now. Hard drives are not like body parts, they cannot heal themselves back to perfect health. The most that can be done is to cordon off the damaged areas, tie up the broken bits and loose ends of the file system, and hope the damage doesn't spread before you can duplicate the installation on a new drive.

Basically, even though you managed to implement the work-around, and the damage has been cordoned off and the file system cauterized, you are living on borrowed time with that hard drive because whatever caused the initial damage is very likely to continue causing damage (e.g., the read/write head may be striking the surface of the disk), and that damage will eventually spread beyond the area you successfully cordoned off this time around.

Again, I know this from personal experience because I had a hard drive on which I got file corruption, and I fixed the installation and/or reinstalled the OS three times, and each time the drive would function for a day or two and then I would get file corruption warnings again, and shortly thereafter the disk would fail to boot.

So, you should consider yourself lucky if you actually did manage to get everything fixed with Chkdsk, and should take the opportunity to move everything over to a new hard drive before the damage spreads and irretrievably corrupts some of your files.

But, that's just my two cents' worth, take it or leave it, as you see fit.

 

haniunited, you should take the advice. Your hard drive, and thereby YOU, are living on borrowed time. Buy an new drive, if sending the machine back for warranty service is out of the question.

Gary