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dougdeep said:

If you'd moved to Seaford I could have recommended a great place to take it.

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dougdeep said:

If you'd moved to Seaford I could have recommended a great place to take it.

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Rugrat said:

Wondered if anyone can help.

Replaced the HD on my Dell about a year ago as I bought a model prone to overheating.

All OK until about 6 months ago when it was installing regular windows updates and then wouldn't restart. Somehow I managed to get it going again and same thing happened. To overcome the issue I just switched off automatic updates.

Recently had an issue with another bit of s/w that needs to use (??) .NET framework and given a load of updates weren't installed I tried again. Same result (doh) only this time I can't get in to restore at all.

I've run diagnostics and the code I get is 2000-0146 in the Hard Drive area

Have tried to go through set up and repair but it says unable to repair.

Is this terminal or has anyone any ideas to help? Happy to switch off updates again if I could just get in!

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Rugrat said:

Yes, Windows 7

No disc to reinstall but have just managed to get to System Recovery Options and I'm trying to restore back a couple of days before I installed the updates. If another HD was needed think I'd lob the piece of shit in the bin

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ozzygull said:

It sounds to me if you have a Hard drive issue and it has corrupted your OS. If you have a external drive you could try using an imaging tool to create a copy of your disk to a file on an external drive. You can then buy a new disk and restore the image. The problem is if it is corrupted. You will still need to repair it. You could then by a DVD for eBay.

Clonezilla is a free imaging tool you can use. Link below

http://arga.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/how-to-properly-clone-a-windows-7-system-partition-with-clonezilla/

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Rugrat said:

No external drive and tbh I'm fed up having had previous probs and replacing the HD.

Couldn't make system restore work, it wasn't showing me dates/times back beyond yesterday when it was updating/installing loads of stuff, having not done it in 4 or so months

Think I might just call it a day!

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ozzygull said:

When i suggest an external drive. I ment like a USB drive. It just needs enough space to fit the image on.

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jackanada said:

Machine should be new enough to boot from a USB stick.

Download Ultimate Boot CD (sadly most computer problems require use of a computer). Create bootable USB http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2405

Run test disk, then you will know. Can also use another program on UBCD to nuke your drive if its ok ready for a clean install.

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jackanada said:

Machine should be new enough to boot from a USB stick.

Download Ultimate Boot CD (sadly most computer problems require use of a computer). Create bootable USB http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2405

Run test disk, then you will know. Can also use another program on UBCD to nuke your drive if its ok ready for a clean install.

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ozzygull said:

When i suggest an external drive. I ment like a USB drive. It just needs enough space to fit the image on.

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Rugrat said:

Thanks I started but it got way too complicated and given earlier comments I made about recurring problems with this Dell pup I took the easier "click and collect" option.

Thanks for the help/advice though, appreciated

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