Hard Drive Failure?

[gt07]

My laptop had been behaving very awful and slow at just about everything/crashing often.

I tried reinstalling windows but when trying to reformat, it wasn't able to. I was however able to successfully format one time and while doing the second part of the install (after the reboot) it was pretty much failing at writing every file. Also I remember it saying something on a lovely blue screen about an "unmountable boot disk".

Is this as simple as a damaged HDD? It's a 2 yr old HP laptop that i hate but wouldn't mind fixing it to just use to browse internet from couch.

 

[jdiddy]

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Download the iso burn it and boot to it. That program has just about every diagnostic program you may need and 9 different hard drive diagnostics to run.

 

[gt07]

thanks a lot buddy! I'll give it a try

 

[daveshel]

That is hard drive failure for sure. You may be able to accomplish something along the lines of a low level format with the drive manufacturer's disk tools but more likely it is a rotational issue.