I just started up my comp normally, nothing out o the ordinary and it sits for about 5 min before it comes up with a red screen to choose whether to load with slic or not. not sure what to do but I can't get past it, just keeps hanging, pic to follow

3/5/2010 2:06:58 PM

[Edited on March 5, 2010 at 2:31 PM. Reason : im onmy droid]

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3/5/2010 2:28:36 PM

I tried each option to no avail, ill try windows 7 disc when I get home

3/5/2010 3:00:13 PM

put in your windows disk and do a repair install. Or maybe just go into recovery console and do a fixboot/fixmbr. Idk. one of those three should get rid of grub.

3/5/2010 3:22:08 PM

why did you install grub in the first place?

3/5/2010 3:22:30 PM

Someone wanted to put on his Linux big boy pants!!1

3/5/2010 3:24:35 PM

I put Linux on about 2 years ago but I thought I wiped it off almost just as fast I've reinstalled windows at least twice since then

3/5/2010 3:47:13 PM

i have no idea how anything could have gotten messed up but it is going depressingly slow, i popped in the windows 7 disc and it took about 10 min to get passed the "starting windows" splash and now its just sitting with a white cursor on a black background

[Edited on March 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM. Reason : SAME PERSON, ON FIANCEE'S COMP]

3/5/2010 4:24:59 PM

That aint a windows screen. This sounds like you've got hardware issues, not software ones. In any case, something is borked

3/5/2010 4:48:04 PM

well it looks like the HDd is going bad. ran hdd regenerator from hirens boot cd and its only at 3% and its already found 400 bad sectors. ill buy a hdd off newegg but can anybody suggest a cheap place to get it installed?

3/5/2010 5:25:42 PM

do it yourself.

3/5/2010 5:29:14 PM

SLIC Loader == crack for Windows Activation.

it basically creates a fake SLIC table in ACPI that makes Windows think your computer is an OEM box from Dell or somewhere.

3/5/2010 5:33:52 PM

I've never done anything hardware wise to a laptop but I do have one of those 100in1 screwdriver kits. I could give it a whirl.

3/5/2010 5:34:46 PM

evan caught me

3/5/2010 5:37:17 PM

oh shit, Noen is gonna be pissed.

3/5/2010 5:38:42 PM

computer karma i guess, its up to 1000 bad sectors now and its been running for about 2 hours.

is it even worth it to let it finish, i mean its repairing them but is it going to actually be usable? its going to take well into tomorrow at this rate

3/5/2010 6:16:43 PM

you dumb pirate motherfucker

3/5/2010 6:17:25 PM

i pay for one license, but ive probably installed it on 2 or 3 computers i own so yeah im despicable but certainly not the worst offender

3/5/2010 6:22:28 PM

hahahaha awesome

3/5/2010 7:30:12 PM

2424 bad sectors so far, 5 hours 10 min running, 3.44% finished. like I asked earlier is this going to let me recover my stuff or is this an excersize in futility???

3/5/2010 9:50:27 PM

Quote :

"I've never done anything hardware wise to a laptop but I do have one of those 100in1 screwdriver kits. I could give it a whirl. "

i've done it with a f'in knife before. it doesn't take much..just 2 or 4 screws for the cover on the hard drive, it'll pop out. sometimes they have a little connector between the case and the drive..a lot of times they don't. you won't have any problems switching them out

3/5/2010 10:50:22 PM

ill try it but i just want to know if i should waste 3 days running this regenerator recovering all the bad sectors or if its improbable ill be able to get like 150gb of stuff back

3/5/2010 11:43:18 PM

[Edited on March 6, 2010 at 12:02 AM. Reason : .]

3/6/2010 12:00:51 AM

that utility is a waste of your time. there are other much quicker ways to get your shit back

3/6/2010 12:05:35 AM

lol well since you didnt divulge any further i went ahead and stopped HDD Regenerator and tried some of the partition recovery and other tools i used the other day to get some data off of an old usb stick that wouldnt read in windows, but that thing only had a handful of bad sectors

i tried about 8 programs and they all froze or the hdd started spinning up and then made that click like it stopped so im just gonna let HDD Regen run again overnight and see where we're at in the morning and then decide if its worth going after my entire lifes worth of photos and music (yes i should have backed up but the whole computer is less than 2 years old, i thought i had some time left)

its funny because i just got done telling my mother in law to get backup and replace all her old hdds and usb sticks because most of them are 5+ years old

3/6/2010 12:41:01 AM

Yeah but I'll bet your grandma is on a legit version of windoze, so she won't have to worry about the crack failing

but most likely you've had the drive spindle fail, especially ifthr bad sectors are piling up like that

3/6/2010 1:13:29 AM

op i will sell you some slightly used (but working) sectors on the cheap. They fell off the back of a truck

3/6/2010 1:15:28 AM

my plan is just to get it working, immediately grab the data and then toss the drive, new one should get here on/about wednesday so as long as it's repaired about that time

from what im reading it sounds like once you have to do something on this large of a scale, even if you regenerate all the bad sectors it could be only a matter of hours before things go sour again

3/6/2010 1:35:42 AM

well the HDD looks like it took a turn for the worse, barely wants to boot, i am now willing to put some money up to get my data back since it includes a lifetime of photos and very important documents

PM me for your services if you can help out

3/6/2010 9:58:54 PM

You've got a crashed drive head. Get ready to pay a lot of money. Last I checked physical data recovery ran a few hundred bucks per gig minimum

3/7/2010 5:27:07 AM

One of our clients just dropped 14 grand on a raid 5 recovery. 80% sure I could have rebuilt it had fregac not bullshitted me on the replacement scsi backplane two days in a row (coincidentally this number being the exact days it took for the client to say "fuck it" and request that we ship the drives off to a data recovery vendor)

3/7/2010 5:48:50 AM

if I do end up sending it off I would settle for losing the music if I could get a gig or two of photos and documents

3/7/2010 11:58:37 AM

does it still show up in the bios?

and is it clicking?

3/7/2010 12:04:19 PM

dyes it still shows up but it takes 10 min to load even hirens boot CD so I'm just gonna stop trying until someone who knows better can give it the college try
I tried a few craigslist ads for local recovery and they were like sounds like you're using the same programs we would so you'll have to send it off

[Edited on March 7, 2010 at 12:13 PM. Reason : drrrrrrroooooiiiiiiiddddd]

3/7/2010 12:10:53 PM

yes it still shows up but it takes 10 min to load even hirens boot CD so I'm just gonna stop trying until someone who knows better can give it the college try
I tried a few craigslist ads for local recovery and they were like sounds like you're using the same programs we would so you'll have to send it off
also its still running and then clicking to a stop then trying to run again, rinse and repeat

3/7/2010 12:12:46 PM

yeah you've most likely done a lot more harm than good at this point. turn it off until you find someone that can help.

also, i might can help..i've had to recover a few at work with pretty good results thus far

[Edited on March 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM. Reason : asdf]

3/7/2010 12:21:13 PM

thanks but i think i'm gonna go with a big company who can rebuild the platters and whatnot

it'll hurt my wallet but i literally don't have the paper versions of a ton of these documents/photos so i don't have much of a choice.

3/7/2010 12:46:03 PM

yeah that's probably your best bet if you're willing to pay the $$. figured if you were being cheap i'd try to help

3/7/2010 12:50:56 PM

i wish there was a local company that did this but it sounds like they just act as a middleman for these places out in CA

sounds like the $TEXAS charges come from needing a clean room for severely damaged drives, hopefully i'm not one of those cases

but lowest i'm seeing is like $700 right now...

3/7/2010 1:00:38 PM

lol that sucks.

what was this drive out of anyways? sata?

i've always just put the drive into another computer and used EASEUS data recovery wizard. it's had no problems recovering anything from discs that didnt even show up in windows disk management for me.

3/7/2010 1:04:12 PM

normally I would do that and try some more diagnostics but with it being even more unresponsive and making the clicking sound I'm very nervous ill scratch something

3/7/2010 1:27:47 PM

You should have never tried the surface verify once you knew it had bad sectors.

You should have waited for the new drive, installed an OS, then copy whatever data you could from the old to the new. There would have been corruption most likely, but you’d have minimized any more damage.

3/7/2010 1:38:16 PM

lots of woulda shoulda coulda, #1 being I should have had backup

3/7/2010 1:47:05 PM

This is the last trick you can try.

Get another computer to use. Buy a USB->IDE adapter (10 bucks).

Stick your dying drive in a ziplock baggy or two, and get as much air out as you can. Stick it in your freezer for an hour or so.

Pull the drive, plug it into the USB adapter, plug the adapter into the computer, and get whatever you can off the drive.

This will buy you 20-30 minutes of use before the whole thing shits the bed totally. Assuming you havent completely fucked the disk up with all the bad sector scans and fixes, you should have enough time to get your data off of it (at least the most important things)

3/7/2010 6:37:18 PM

I will kiss you on the mouth if this works, no homo

3/7/2010 9:56:57 PM

no such luck

[Edited on March 7, 2010 at 11:07 PM. Reason : not sure if its good news but no clicking though]

3/7/2010 10:51:47 PM

did you happen to have a USB->IDE adapter handy? I seriously hope you didn't just try to boot up with that drive.

3/7/2010 11:37:32 PM

yeah I had one handy and was using another computer

3/8/2010 12:07:19 AM