Mom broke my computer

[aimeeandbeatles]

im using one of hers. She unplugged my computer (the stupid <snip> ) & now it will not load properly. I can get to the desktop only half the time and when I do everything is unresponsive and the start menu is all black. Checkdisk gets stuck at 1%. the hard drive light is stuck but no weird noises. It was not like this before. what should I do?

\checkdisk just said some File Record Segments are unreadable. I
have trouble w/ the keyboard on this computer,....

edit: now its deleting index entries. I hpope my files didnt get damaged.

Edit : another edit can the unplug damage a hard drive .Stupid keyboard!

 

[Tarkhan]

Unplugging it, even if it's on, shouldn't damage your drives unless you do it often. But it does sound like a bad hard drive.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Im back on my computer. I noticed that some of the recently updated files, parts of them are missing, but nothing else seems to be wrong. The disk got extremely fragmented, though, like 40% of the system partition when before it was something like 2%.

I have a Western Digital drive. WDC WD5000AAKS-22A7B0 I will look up a diagnostic.

EDIT: this is it I think.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?modelno=WD5000AAKS-22A7B0&x=6&y=11

 

[Tarkhan]

I suggest pulling as many important files off that thing as you can before it completely dies.

Then buy a new hard drive, it's cheaper than trying to get it fixed.

 

[Bratmon]

As soon as I saw this thread title, I knew it was you.

Moderator Action: Warned - trolling.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Im gonna do a full backup. Of course.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

As soon as I saw this thread title, I knew it was you.

As soon as I saw it was you posting, I knew it would be a snarky post that would add absolutely nothing.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Folding@home now gave me a filesystem error. I am going to do another checkdisk and then run the diagnostic. I wanted to backup before doing the diagnostic and it turned out to take longer than i expected.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I ran chkdsk. It said it restored a missing file but nothing else unusual. But then when it rebooted it started again! So I rebooted the computer with the button and cancelled it.

Then I went to look up the endless looping thing in Firefox and it randomly disappeared and it popped up a box saying that there was no error log. I dont know if this is related, though. Maybe my computer has been possessed.

Im running the diagnostics thing now. The quick test says PASS and now I am running the extended one.

Still no weird noises -- just a lot of grinding.

EDIT: By the way, if it helps, I figured out where the chkdsk log is stored.

Spoiler :

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is System.

One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
213760 file records processed. 366 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 57 reparse records processed. The object id in file 0x9675 does not appear in the object
id index in file 0x19.
Inserting an index entry into index $O of file 25.
261766 index entries processed. CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
1 unindexed files processed. 213760 security descriptors processed. Cleaning up 12 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 12 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 12 unused security descriptors.
24004 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37423192 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
213744 files processed. File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
22082643 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

157286399 KB total disk space.
68522632 KB in 188411 files.
104612 KB in 24006 indexes.
4 KB in bad sectors.
328579 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
88330572 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
39321599 total allocation units on disk.
22082643 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 43 03 00 cb 3d 03 00 f5 de 05 00 00 00 00 00 .C...=..........
2e 61 00 00 39 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .a..9...........
42 00 00 00 12 75 f4 76 00 84 10 00 00 7c 10 00 B....u.v.....|..

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

I didnt notice that BITMAP thing before.

Ive also just read that the endless looping means the filesystem is corrpted. Is this true?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The diagnostic says Bad sectors that may be correctable. I will try to correct them tomorrow as I am tired.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Just do a repair install of windows or go back to a previous restore point.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I will trya system resotre (I did a Windows Update the day before) and then a recovery install.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

System Restore -- "unspecified error." I guess it got corrupted.
Couldnt do a repair install it was greyed out. So I tried uninstalling the service packs and eevrything started acting crazy (e.g. a dozen errors from various programs on bootup).

Would a clean install work?

 

[deanej]

You could always try SpinRite.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I don't have the money for it.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

A clean install should work assuming you have the disc.

It's a pain though.

 

[deanej]

Maybe, maybe not. I've seen a computer that got a BSOD while re-installing Windows. After some miracle allowed Windows to be re-installed, we had a policy of "never shut down the computer, and never close Adobe Premier, and never open another application".

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Reinstalled fine. I did a format.

 

[J-man]

So, not a bad HDD? Or have the problems returned? Tip: don't give your mom admin rights....

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

No problems yet.

My mom doesnt have admin rights. She didnt need them either. She unplugged the comptuer.