Is it the hard drive dying or software issues?

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dell inspiron 1525 windows vista, tried to perform factory restore but f11 doesn't work, just loads forever then I get a blue screen stating that it had to terminate. ran diagnostic and got error 2000-0412. reinstalling by cd only brought up desktop and internet works but all my programs cannot run. unknown internal error on everything, including windows search, help, and 'find solutions', other programs such as microsoft office, itunes and adobe all get the internal error message and will not run. I need my office, i have papers to due for school so this is an emergency. I need these programs working as soon as possible. I have already ran a registry cleaner, a virus and malware scan several times and it finds nothing. I have done uninstallations and reinstallations but nothing different. Will factory restore work and fix these errors? and if so, how do I do it since f11 doesn't work? keeping it in mind the cd installation didn't work the first time and wouldn't like to try it again. Is this even a windows problem or is this my hard drive dying? safe mode doesn't load either. the windows cd is clean, never opened.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Hey I think u should reformat the computer…then Set your computer to start in safe mode and restart it. You can also simply start your computer and press the "F8" key while it begins to load. You will be able to access safe mode from the startup utilities…Install kaspersky or AVASt antivirus..after completion of installation..Scan the computer..

Keep in mind that reformatting your hard drive will reset it to the factor setting, so you want to make sure that you backup everything that you want to save before we begin the process.

Thomas W · Answer

Hi 
If it's a dell ore an acer don't matter to me but my  sugestion to you would be to try a full clean reinstallation (hopefully you have backup of your most needed programs) i dont know if there is a possibility to press f2 or something simular to get in to bios , but go in to the bios and set your pc to boot from cd and format your harddrive and reinstall windows ,the machines drivers and your programs.
Hope this would help you.

Anonymous · Answer

I had the journey with a one 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous western digital 500gb,dying on me,nevertheless I dragged it on for form of 7months longer,yet in the time of that ingredient I constantly had to reinstall new os,handle crashes,lost documents and regenerate and restore the disc,till i eventually have been given bored stiff.

wassupsergio · Answer

try doing a fresh os installation with the disk. format the hard drive when doing such. there might be a corrupt file or such in the hd.

Anonymous · Answer

do a full format of the C : disk partition and then try the disk again it should work if not its a hardware problem.

btw how old is your hard drive? if its more than 6 years old than it probably is the hard drive

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