Acer aspire 3000

[erichq]

i bought a acer aspire 3000 about a year ago and just the other day it crashed. i ended up getting the "blue screen of death". i put my system recovery cd's in and it got to about 13% and it slowed down. really slow...slow as in a hour to go from 13 to 20%. during this time it says something like marking bad cluster XXXXX to XXXXX as bad. (X's are a number). it marks a bunch as a bad cluster. after it gets past that it works fine. i start it up and then boom, it restarts. up comes a screen that asks me to start in safe mode, safe mode w/ command prompt, last known good configuration, or start windows normally. all of the ones with safe mode won't work. last known good configuration tells me i'm missing files and need to reinstall them using the recovery cds (doesn't work though), and with the start windows normally it ends up restarting and going to the same screen.

any ideas????

 

[Angel.of.Death]

OK try the full low-level format.

1.Create a boot floppy (from a friends computer or something)
2.Boot from the floppy
3.In the command line type in
format c:
4.When finished run a FULL scandisk check by typing:
SCANDISK c: /all /surface /autofix
(note: this is to check whether the format hhad a positive effect)

If the problem is fixed, you can reinstall windows.
If you still cant resolve, get a new HDD =] (or you can try the LLF utility that the other one suggested.)

Good luck

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Im sure that its a HDD error...