Computer, You're Not Helping

[the_gneech]

Okay, something has hosed my computer. Clicking, y'know, anything, causes it to lock up. CTRL-ALT-DEL returns a dalog window that says, "No login options could be recognized." (Do what now?)

If it wasn't already going wonky before last night, I'd assume it was related to all the stuff I did then. But fine, just in case, Window 7 has restore points, I'll just restore it to... *blink* What do you mean the only restore point it has is from 1:00 a.m. this morning?

-.-

For crap's sake, computer, I don't need this. I have stuff I want to get done.

Time to gripe on my iPad!

I sure as heck don't want to reinstall Windows. -.- I'm not convinced that would fix it anyway. Given the behavior, I'm a bit worried that it's a hard drive failure.

-The Gneech

Comments

[radbaron.livejournal.com]

Hoping you make hard drive backups and image saves on a seperate external drive...

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I've got Carbonite for my data backups.

-TG

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Exceptionally well done Sir Geek :)

[mouser.livejournal.com]

No, that's not a harddrive failure. It COULD be something wrong with the O/S but...

Install and run these:
www.malwarebytes.org
www.microsoft.com/security_essentials

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I'm currently running a chkdsk on it, which needs to finish before I can do anything else.

-TG

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

No, that sounds like a HD flaking out. Do you have another PC you can pull a copy of SpinRite (http://www.grc.com) and burn a CD of?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

You mean like doing a physical backup?

-TG

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

No, more like getting a tool that massages the broken PC's drive and gets it back to good health.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I'll look into it. Running chkdsk right now.

-TG

[makovette.livejournal.com]

Time for that SSD, just saying... :)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Couldn't get it to run. So that's $90 I can't have back.

*headdesk*

-TG

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

You did boot into SpinRite, right?

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

No, I couldn't get it to make a bootable CD (and I have no floppy drives).

-TG

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Were you able to get an .iso file out of the Spinrite.exe? Let me know if you still want to go through this route, or if you want to wait and meet up at AC so I can burn it for you.

[azhdragon.livejournal.com]

You could try inserting your windows 7 disk and asking it to repair - it could be a faulty MBR (master boot record).

This recently happened to me and this fix worked. Had it not, I would have bought a new harddrive and done a fresh install, and mounted the other drive as a secondary so that I could retrieve the files off it.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, no "repair" option from Windows disk. Just "upgrade" and "custom install" -- both of which fail because the system on my disk is more recent.

-TG