Hard Drive done for?

[Mandin62]

I have a buddy who was simotaniously uninstalling office 2007 and rendering a video out using Sony's Vegas video editor. what happened was the rendered video filled the hard drive well he was uninstalling office causing both apps to crash and computer to freeze. He restarted everything worked fine except that he can not finish uninstalling office and any video he plays skips and freezes randomly. I recommended moving videos to another hard drive and this fixed the video play back problem. i then recommended a system restore to see if he couldnt get Office "back" so he could uninstall it properly. this didnt work. help at all i told him to defrag and well it did about as much as i thought it would, nothing. Now for the questions. What should he do to get his main hard drive back in working order? and are there any apps that help with this sort of stuff? or is he going to have to RMA it? Thanks for any help.

 

[MegaVovaN]

IMO format drive and see if it works.
Do low level format.

If it still won't work, RMA that baby.

 

[Mandin62]

yeah i was kinda hoping to avoid it but he said he was thinking about doing it anyways. How hard on a drive is it to fill it all the way up well still trying to write more? I would imagine pretty hard but does any one know for sure.

 

[RebateMonger]

You didn't hurt your hard drive doing what you did. You unexpectly overflowed it in the middle of an MS Office install. Office does a free space check before installing, but it can't know that you are writing huge video files onto the drive during the Office install.

Clean up enough space on your hard drive so that Office can be installed. Perform a complete Install of Office, and then uninstall it, if that's what you want.

 

[0roo0roo]

yup, he borked the uninstall process and made a mess.
its not hardware, not likely atleast.
do as said above.
at worst, reinstall windows.

 

[Mandin62]

yeah that was what i was thinking. i didnt think it was hardware as it involved a install/uninstall. thanks for the input. i think i am just going to tell him to go ahead a reformat, since he wanted to anyways. thanks guys.

Forum Moderator, this thread can be deleted at this point. thanks again.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: Mandin62
yeah that was what i was thinking. i didnt think it was hardware as it involved a install/uninstall. thanks for the input. i think i am just going to tell him to go ahead a reformat, since he wanted to anyways. thanks guys.

Forum Moderator, this thread can be deleted at this point. thanks again.

clsoed, not deleted.

(in case someone else has same problem in future)

or just left alone.