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LiLRiceBoi

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So today my laptop hdd has been corrupted or died. It wont boot, even in safe mode. When it gets to a certain point, it keeps trying to access something on the disk and repetedly makes noise. Finally, i get a BSOD.

I'm gonna try to reinstall windows on it to fix the intstallation so that i can hopefully salvage the data. I'm at school right now so I havent tried anything yet. I have a midterm in an hour and all my notes are on my laptop 🙁

What other options do i have to recover the data? The laptop is still under warentee from IBM, so getting a new one shouldnt be too much of a problem. But I would like to recover the data if possible.

Thanks
 
WAIT - Don't write anything to the hard drive if you think the drive is on its way out AND you want to save your files.

If the drive is on its way out, and it dies while you are trying to reinstall an OS, say goodbye to your data.

The best way is to take the drive out of the lappy, buy/borrow a 2.5-3.5 converter/bridge connect it to another system as a slave and get the data off onto the system's hard drive. - This is the quickest way to transfer data between hard drives. Speed is your priority IF the hard drive is on its way out.

 
Originally posted by: LiLRiceBoi
So today my laptop hdd has been corrupted or died. It wont boot, even in safe mode. When it gets to a certain point, it keeps trying to access something on the disk and repetedly makes noise. Finally, i get a BSOD.

I'm gonna try to reinstall windows on it to fix the intstallation so that i can hopefully salvage the data. I'm at school right now so I havent tried anything yet. I have a midterm in an hour and all my notes are on my laptop 🙁

What other options do i have to recover the data? The laptop is still under warentee from IBM, so getting a new one shouldnt be too much of a problem. But I would like to recover the data if possible.

Thanks
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What's the BSOD error message?
 
STOP: c000021a [Fatal System Error] The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down.
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I forgot to mention, I installed photoshop 7 before shutting down the night before. So there might be some sort of conflict? But that's never happened to me before.

I wish I wasnt so busy w/ midterms so I could take care of this quickly.

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: LiLRiceBoi
STOP: c000021a [Fatal System Error] The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000026c (0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shut down.
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I forgot to mention, I installed photoshop 7 before shutting down the night before. So there might be some sort of conflict? But that's never happened to me before.

I wish I wasnt so busy w/ midterms so I could take care of this quickly.

Thanks
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You can do a repair in place installation, or if you really want to play it simple, just install XP to another directory (say, C:\WinTWO) ...DON'T FORMAT THE DRIVE ... and from there you can copy files to a USB thumbdrive or over the network to your heart's content.

Does Last Known Good Configuration let you boot? Or does the same thing happen?

What's your priority - getting data off, or getting this fixed? Getting it fixed can be done, but will take a long time; it might be easiest just to get your data off then try to fix it later.
 
Right now i just want the data because I need it for school.

Last Known Good Configuration doenst work because I disabled all that stuff. I'll probably get around to getting the data off tonight and format it tomorrow.

I did some research about the stop error that I got and it appears to be software related, so I'll probably wont do a warentee claim for it.
 
Originally posted by: LiLRiceBoi
Right now i just want the data because I need it for school.

Last Known Good Configuration doenst work because I disabled all that stuff. I'll probably get around to getting the data off tonight and format it tomorrow.

I did some research about the stop error that I got and it appears to be software related, so I'll probably wont do a warentee claim for it.
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What stuff did you disable to stop LKG? There's nothing you can do to stop it - it just runs from a previous copy of HKLM data.

Can you try it?
 
I disabled system restore and a lot of other useless windows stuff.

Anyways I got the critial data backed up. When I reinstalled the OS on the same partition but in a different directory the system booted up and i was able to back up my data. But it booted REALLY slowly. And when I was installing it, I got two errors that noted some memory address. I wish I wrote down what they said.

And I still cant boot into the other installation, even after trying to "repair" it (reinstall over it).

So what do you think? Is the hard drive going bad? Could it be a RAM problem?
 
Originally posted by: LiLRiceBoi
I disabled system restore and a lot of other useless windows stuff.

Anyways I got the critial data backed up. When I reinstalled the OS on the same partition but in a different directory the system booted up and i was able to back up my data. But it booted REALLY slowly. And when I was installing it, I got two errors that noted some memory address. I wish I wrote down what they said.

And I still cant boot into the other installation, even after trying to "repair" it (reinstall over it).

So what do you think? Is the hard drive going bad? Could it be a RAM problem?
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System Restore has nothing to do with last known good. Again, please try last known good and tell us what happened.

What errors did you get on the parallel install? The memory dumps in c:\your-new-windows-directory\minidumps would be helpful.
 
I've already tried last known good configuration and it didnt work.

I dont have any memory dumps in that dir.

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I just tried rebooting into the origional install and got to the login screen. I logged in. I can see the desktop and it just hangs. There isnt a taskbar or anything else loaded. HDD light is always on.
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