Comments on: Hard disk problem when installing Windows http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hard-disk-problem/ Sun, 19 May 2013 00:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: markempee http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hard-disk-problem/#comment-98442 markempee Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:24:42 +0000 #comment-98442 If you believe that your computer has a hard disk drive failure, it is very important to test the hard disk to another computer system. If you found it really failed, you have no other option but to change your hard disk drive for a new one.

]]> By: geek squad replaced my hard drive and acer doesn’t have the recovery disk i need. what do i do? | hard drive recovery http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hard-disk-problem/#comment-85561 geek squad replaced my hard drive and acer doesn’t have the recovery disk i need. what do i do? | hard drive recovery Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:23:55 +0000 #comment-85561 [...] Hard disk problem when installing Windows [...]

]]> By: jinteik http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hard-disk-problem/#comment-85482 jinteik Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:03:35 +0000 #comment-85482 If you have another PC, try slotting that hard disk as slave and if there is no need to do backup for any files then try to just format it thru windows mode…

]]> By: ladomuki http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hard-disk-problem/#comment-85327 ladomuki Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:17:29 +0000 #comment-85327 Boot to recovery console and try a chkdsk /r. thats the only thing that will help you eliminate bad sectors. It takes time to complete. make sure you run chkdsk /r till the time it shows no error.

]]> By: carlosdl http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hard-disk-problem/#comment-85289 carlosdl Mon, 13 Dec 2010 22:21:53 +0000 #comment-85289 You will need to provide more details.

At least, you should include the exact error message, the windows version you are trying to install and some details about the machine you are trying to do this on.

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