Lucritius wrote XeGlitch let me know if you mananged to get it to work or if the diagnostics found the drive to be failing.

What would exactly happen if I ran hirens boot?

It's a piece of software that's ran through the RAM instead of a hard drive. A hard drive could be completely dead and you could still use hirens. It's basically a program with multiple other programs in it for diagnostics, resetting forgotten windows passwords, and other things. You can also just google "how to use hirens to check if hard drive is failing" or something along those lines if you feel like it's to complicated for you.

Lucritius wrote It's a piece of software that's ran through the RAM instead of a hard drive. A hard drive could be completely dead and you could still use hirens. It's basically a program with multiple other programs in it for diagnostics, resetting forgotten windows passwords, and other things. You can also just google "how to use hirens to check if hard drive is failing" or something along those lines if you feel like it's to complicated for you.

So do I just download herens and put it on my usb?

In one of my previous posts I linked 2 different links. One is the software and the other is the full tutorial how to get it onto the USB properly.

Lucritius wrote In one of my previous posts I linked 2 different links. One is the software and the other is the full tutorial how to get it onto the USB properly.

Alright thank you man, my friend will get it sorted on a usb by tommorow as I have no access to a pc atm, will let you know how it goes. Thank you once again for all your help!

Alright I put hirens boot on my usb but it now freezes on start up.

You can't run hirens? Your sure you manually booted to the flash drive?

Lucritius wrote You can't run hirens? Your sure you manually booted to the flash drive?

I'm positive. Do you have Skype?

No never bothered always used FaceTime but I'm at work anyway.

Best thing I can suggest is to read that link in the earlier post on how to install it on a flash drive and make sure you did all that right. Just remember that this whole process is just to verify that the drive is failing, which we already determined is 95% likely based on the pictures you posted. If you don't feel all this is necessary and just want to get a new drive that is an option. You'll just have to reinstall windows. If you go that route, you can also attempt to connect your old drive externally to see if you can recover any of your old data such as documents, pictures, etc.

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