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shadowbreaker513
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Earlier today I was during my usual perusing of some of the picture galleries on break when firefox locked up when I clicked the button to go to the next picture. I went to end it in the process managed, but the program seemed to close itself and I didn't worry about it. Later I went to reopen firefox, and this time merely opening it somehow brought back the old broken window that had been apparently running as a process but was not visible, in addition to the new one, and it promptly locked up. The only thing I could do on the computer oddly enough was to start/stop the mp3 i had open in windows media player at the time, shortly after though, the computer stopped responding to any input whatsoever. A few minutes after that, it blue screened on me saying that a system file was fubared. When I rebooted, it said windows could not load due to a file in the system32 folder being corrupt/missing, and it said to do a repair of the windows installation.
I dug around my room for my windows disc, and booted off the disc. I pressed "r" to go the recovery console to attempt to fix the issue, however, once I got into it, it hangs every time on the screen where it tells me to select which windows installation to log onto. Oddly, this only happens after I type something. If i do nothing, it will work until I type something, and then it immediately hangs.
I'm planning to run some of the WD diagnostic tools but atm I don't have any blank discs to put them on. I also ran a windows chkdsk this past week due to me having a suspicion that files were not being deleted correctly. It came up with a message saying there was an error with I think the indexing, but that it was fixed (and i got the space that I was missing back).
I have a feeling my hard drive is probably dying and I'll have to get a new one soon, but does anyone have any suggestions on how to try and fix this problem with windows?
(posting this here because it seems to encompass both hardware and software issues)
I dug around my room for my windows disc, and booted off the disc. I pressed "r" to go the recovery console to attempt to fix the issue, however, once I got into it, it hangs every time on the screen where it tells me to select which windows installation to log onto. Oddly, this only happens after I type something. If i do nothing, it will work until I type something, and then it immediately hangs.
I'm planning to run some of the WD diagnostic tools but atm I don't have any blank discs to put them on. I also ran a windows chkdsk this past week due to me having a suspicion that files were not being deleted correctly. It came up with a message saying there was an error with I think the indexing, but that it was fixed (and i got the space that I was missing back).
I have a feeling my hard drive is probably dying and I'll have to get a new one soon, but does anyone have any suggestions on how to try and fix this problem with windows?
(posting this here because it seems to encompass both hardware and software issues)