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Originally Posted by Jandrews
Ok...no way to create a floppy here at home either. Only have two laptops that have DVD ROM. I can create something at work...I guess I'll have to wait. Just curious, how does that diag disk work if you HD is toast?
Thanks,
JA
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The diag disk will confirm if the HD is bad, that's it. From what you described, it sounds like your HD is failing. I would hate to see you try and reinstall Windows for no reason or if the HD is bad, reinstall Windows only to have the computer BSOD again.
I am working on someone's computer at the moment with the same symptoms. It is a Dell, so the lady first called their tech support and after 2 hours, they told her to bring it to Best Buy (Geek Squad partners w/BB) and was told to back up her data, as the computer needed to be formatted. She had run the HD utility that comes with Dell computers and it reported that the HD was fine. I did not by that and ran my own diagnostics - the one I pointed you to. It reported a bad HD. The symptoms were: taking forever to boot, only to BSOD each time.
Dave