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I am having a problem installing the os on my hard drive?
Five days ago I suddenly got a blue screen warning, and my pc froze This happened a couple of times then suddenly thats all I can get. I tried checking for virus and spyware and nothing was found
I decided to format which I did but when trying to install the OS I was out of luck all I get is that Blue warning screen I have tried fdisk and format three or four times and doing so I lost my second drive as well. I have also ran the seagate diagnostics utility testing the drive came up ok and then I deleted everything on it using the same utility However I did notice that the information on the test said that the Seagate 500gb hard drive was security freeze locked I have looked this up on the net but have not yet found a way to unlock it Seagate have been no help at all
If this hard drive fault is the reason I can not install the OS I would like to get to the bottom of it any help would be appreciated .
I have tried ultimate boot disk, also seatools the diagnostics disk from Seagate it showed the hard drive as clean .I have it set to boot from cd first and it starts ok It tries to start loading files then I get the blue screen again I am good with computers being a retired IT tech but this one as got me stumped I was told that it will be because of the hard drive showing security freeze locked but who knows
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
OK, not sure if this will help but when you try to install the OS (Windows of some sort I assume) are you changing the settings in the BIOS to boot to CD first? If so, will it let you get to the point in loading the OS that it asks where you want to load it?
I had a similar problem a while back where it would start installing Windows, get 13-15% then BSOD me. I thought it was my HD too, but it turned out it was my RAM. If you have a bad stick it will do exactly what you're saying.
I'd say google either ULTIMATE BOOT DISK or just MEMCHK and make a boot disc on another PC. This will actually scan and check your RAM for problems. Another idea is download a boot disk for Linux and burn it on a disc. You can run and use Linux Ubuntu straight from the CD without downloading it to HD. If it works, your HD is bad. If it doesn't, you need new RAM).
- 5 years ago
it type of feels you've a format problem there. only attempt to format your stress back utilising FAT32 and re-deploy living house windows, then once you've living house windows up and dealing, then convert the partition to NTFS utilising the Convert command on the CMD. Regards, Freddy Gonzalez, Dominican Republic.
