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I have a Dim E520 desk top that is quite a feew years old. When booting the computer, I now recieve a "windows failed to start" error.
I have options to choose how I would like to start the system: safe mode, saffe mode w/ networking, etc...
I ran some diagnostics around OS not booting and I received back an error for this process: SATA Disk S/N=WD-WCANM5559075
Error Code 0f00:075d
My OS system is a vista 32 bit
Any help or guidance is appreciated.
Darsig
Agree the hard drive is toast ... install a new hard drive and OS. But once you get up and running again you may be able to still recover any needed files from the old drive. Your current drive probably has errors or bad sectors where windows is installed but much of the data on the drive should still be intact. But get them off asap as problem drives tend to just keep getting worse.
shesagordie
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Posted June 30th, 2012 13:00
Darsig,
You are welcome, if you need more help, just post back.
Bev.
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Posted June 30th, 2012 18:00
No doubt your hard drive has failed. This is what happended to my B110. Note to Dell- Don't put the <ADMIN NOTE: Profanity removed as per TOU> Seagate Hard Drives in your computers- They fail after 6 or so years.
pkinneerA hard drive's life, depends on the usage they receive.Bev.It very likely is due to the problem with the bad block on the hard drive, yes.
If you can get to a command prompt you may be able to temporarily fix the issue with a chkdsk /f -- but don't count on it, and don't delay in backing up the system, as once you see bad blocks, more will inevitably follow until the drive is unusable.
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Posted July 1st, 2012 08:00
I get a BSOD when attempting to boot [STOP: 0X000000ED (0x8ACE09E0, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)], and after running Dell Diagnostics, a bad HDD Block 6646809, the remainer of the drive is OK and all other diagnostics are good.
I want to know if the failed Block is related to Boot-up or is it possible my BSOD is caused by something other than the bad HDD Block?
Thanks.
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Posted July 1st, 2012 12:00
Original question:
"I get a BSOD when attempting to boot [STOP: 0X000000ED (0x8ACE09E0, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)], and after running Dell Diagnostics, a bad HDD Block 6646809, the remainer of the drive is OK and all other diagnostics are good.
I want to know if the failed Block is related to Boot-up or is it possible my BSOD is caused by something other than the bad HDD Block?
Thanks."
Reply:
"It very likely is due to the problem with the bad block on the hard drive, yes.
If you can get to a command prompt you may be able to temporarily fix the issue with a chkdsk /f -- but don't count on it, and don't delay in backing up the system, as once you see bad blocks, more will inevitably follow until the drive is unusable."
Follow up:
I can probably run chkdsk/f from another boot disc (UBCD). Will it reformat the drive and will I lose "my data" on the drive? I found I can burn "my data" to CDs or DVDs using a program from the UBCD but don't want to go through that excercise if it not necessary.
Another thing I forgot to mention, I was in a hurry the last time I shut the computer down and I manually powered it off. Do you think that could have caused the problem I'm having now?
Thanks for the response.
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727_Turtle
It's handy to include the computer model and version of windows, with the post.
Running chkdsk/f does not format the hard drive, or erase the data, but if the drive is in bad shape, it may freeze, or take a long time to run chkdsk.
One of the best methods to recover the files and folders, is to attach the failed hard drive to another system using an USB adaptor similar to THIS and see if you can transfer the files and folders.
Any applications and programs need to be reinstalled from their discs.
Bev.
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Posted June 30th, 2012 09:00
Darsig
Error Code 0f00:075d indicates the hard drive has failed, or is failing and you need to replace it ASAP, followed by reinstalling Vista and loading the drivers and applications.
Bev