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    hard drive problem.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by gerig1, Jul 4, 2008.

  1. gerig1

    gerig1 Newbie

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    My son has an Acer Aspire 3680 with Vista. It recently stopped booting. All recovery options do no work. It starts to repair and then just sits there. Running a disk check, I get "Unmountable Volume". A differrent check says Drive c has no label. The disk light just blinks slowly while trying to repair. If i run a boot log, It crashes right after the "crcdisk" runs, every time.

    I'm thinking bad hard drive. Anyone else have this?
     
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    Bad hard drive or corrupted MBR..You have Vista Bootable Installation DVD? Although if you have the 'Boot to Recovery' option during POST the MBR should be fine..
     
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    gerig1 Newbie

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    I have Vista upgrade CD only. That allows me to use Ramdisk to get access to other troubleshooting utilities, but the hard drive will only read to the crcdisk.exe and crash. any repair or recovery options just sit there with the hard drive light slowly blinking. One disk repair option, (i forget which) said the disk is un-repaiable. This was a utility from the Vista upgrade disk.
     
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    PS: do not have "boot to recovery". Only Repair option if I hit F10 during POST. This hangs just like the rest.
     
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    This is what I meant..You could attach the hdd to another computer, using usb enclosure and check it for errors, I'm pretty sure this way it won't crash during error check.
     
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    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Which hdd have you got..??
    Try out the links....
    Link 1-->see if you can download the UBCD
    Link 2-->depends upon which hdd you have got, burn the iso to a disc, boot through CD and run the diagnostic tool....It ll help you know if it is the drive that has gone bad or there is an OS problem..!!
     
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