Critical Error Windows Cannot Find Hard Drive
List Welcome Guide More BleepingComputer.com → Security → Am I infected? What do I do? Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Register a free account to unlock additional features at BleepingComputer.com Welcome to BleepingComputer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site. Click here to Register a free account now! or read our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Hard drive failure critical error Started by Vick Broo , Mar 23 2011 06:54 AM Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Next Please log in to reply 36 replies to this topic #1 Vick Broo Vick Broo Members 3 posts OFFLINE Local time:08:38 AM Posted 23 March 2011 - 06:54 AM Hi! I have a problem with my computer. I've red an other topic (but I can't find it anymore) and it seems to mee that I have a virus. I can not acces any files or programs. After starting I get Windows recovery which I've never seen before (could be me but I'm not sure) It detects this mistakes and can not fix them if I upgrade it should be able to fix my problems. - 39% of HDD space is unrreadable - boot sector of hard drive disk is damaged - hard drive doesn't respond to system commands - read time of hard drive clusters less than 500 ms - bad sectors on hard drive or damaged file on allocation table Then I got these warnings too: Down besides the time pops up a window saying: Hard drive critical error. Run diagnostic utility. Check hard disk drive for errors. Windows can't find hard disk space. Hard drive error. In the screen I get: Hard drive failure. The system has detected a problem with one or more installed IDE/SATA hard disks. It is recommended that you restart the
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