redkneck Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 Mama's on my back about getting her PC up and going. It keeps booting up to the "blue screen" that we all hate. I've even downloaded an A-V program that boots up into a Linux application and scans for bugs. Cleaned up and still the blue screen. It was booting up, but when I selected safeboot, it went into the blue abyss. I hate to format the drive, she lost her CD with all the goodies that came originally loaded on the thing. Grrrrrrrrr....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gzilla45 Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 The fact that it is giving you the famous blue screen while loading in safeboot is a bad sign. I would recommend googling the error message that you get as it could be caused by numerous problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted September 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 After hours of testing I've decided there is a corruption in the boot sector. Time for a new drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted September 3, 2009 Report Share Posted September 3, 2009 After hours of testing I've decided there is a corruption in the boot sector. Time for a new drive. You can probably still get the data off that drive even if the boot sector is corrupt. Just install it as a "slave" drive when you install the new one and get the data you want off of it then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted September 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 You can probably still get the data off that drive even if the boot sector is corrupt. Just install it as a "slave" drive when you install the new one and get the data you want off of it then. Thanks, Leo. I went to Best Buy last night (i've been meaning to pick up an enclosure anyway) but they didnt have one that was SATA compatible. I wanted one for IDE too, for working with older drives. I suppose the SATA's use the jumpers like the IDE's but I never hooked one up myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Sauceman Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 Maybe not...if you have the original OS disk try and do a repair. It may be able to repair that sector and it would save you money. It is always best to have a master and slave hard drive. That was you will have a mirror of your master in case something goes wrong. Then you can remove the bad hard drive and continue with the new master. Pretty easy to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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