my system crashed from a virus breakout on my laptop i had to borrow the windows home cd from a friend and reloaded my operating system but now at the boot menu it tells me hard drive failure imminent press F1 to ignore is this because the trojan damaged the hard drive?
2007-02-23 16:32:59 · 3 answers · asked by kenallen75 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The only way of knowing if in fact your HD is going bad is to do a chdisk on it...via tools...
Click My Computer, the rightclick on C:\Drive, then Properties, then Tools, then Error checking...put a check mark in both boxes and then reboot and it will check the HD and system files for damage and bad sectors on your HD...OK
If it says your HD's goin bad then it is...Hard drives can go bad all at once...and NO a Trojan can't do Physical damage to the drive...just to the information that's on it.
2007-02-23 16:39:40 · answer #1 · answered by MUff1N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will depend. Download the HDD diagnostics test from the vender that made the HDD. Seagate, WD, or Maxtor, etc.
Usually the message really means your HDD is about to crash, but you never know with viruses today. If the vender Diagnostics test says it's about to crash, replace the HDD immediately... do not pass Go, Do not collect $200.... you can loose all your data otherwise.
If the diagnostics says no, then go to a web-base virus scan to check for viruses. Such as Nortons or McAfee.
2007-02-23 16:43:31 · answer #2 · answered by Corillan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
slightly late yet not at all improve to Vista wait until eventually you purchase a clean gadget and it really is pre-put in. in simple terms google the blunders code and it is going to take you to a area the position it is going to allow you to comprehend waht the code means and hoe to revive it (if conceivable)
2016-12-04 21:12:17 · answer #3 · answered by picart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋