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CatOnButter
Hello, everyone!
I've just been given my girlfriend's Notebook to 'have a quick look at some issues'.
I'm not overly competent with Windows, but I can usually help myself. This, however, has me stumped:
Initial Situation:
Apparently, the system had some issues and a recovery was tried but couldn't follow through. Then, a complete reinstallation via a bootable USB device was attempted, but this also didn't work out. This is not an issue of data management. There is no important data left (which, given the situation, is a bit of a relief).
Goals:
- To ascertain that the HDD isn't faulty.
- To install Windows 10
Points of trouble:
From here on, I figured something had gone awry with either old configuration files, corrupted files, partitions, or something related.
Thus, I figured there could be an issue with bad sectors or something comparable.
This didn't fix the issue.
Now I am left with a disk I cannot install Windows on, cannot format, cannot check for errors.
Again, I freely admit that I'm hardly even a layman at solving computer issues. But what little expertise I have has been exhausted.
So, my question is: Is this a hardware issue? Are there other things I can try?
Looking forward to your help. And thanks in advance
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I've just been given my girlfriend's Notebook to 'have a quick look at some issues'.
I'm not overly competent with Windows, but I can usually help myself. This, however, has me stumped:
Initial Situation:
Apparently, the system had some issues and a recovery was tried but couldn't follow through. Then, a complete reinstallation via a bootable USB device was attempted, but this also didn't work out. This is not an issue of data management. There is no important data left (which, given the situation, is a bit of a relief).
Goals:
- To ascertain that the HDD isn't faulty.
- To install Windows 10
Points of trouble:
- Windows Setup cannot complete its installation process. Creating a partition fails (after confirming that additional partitions may have to be allocated, the setup seems to fizzle out). Possible solutions tried: Restarting, refreshing ('format' and 'delete' are greyed out. The screen only shows the one build-in disk with entirely unallocated space)
- Trying to continuing the setup without setting up partitions fails also, running into error code 0x80300024. Possible solutions tried: (see below)
From here on, I figured something had gone awry with either old configuration files, corrupted files, partitions, or something related.
- I ran diskpart. Only one harddrive (and my usb drive, I muse) listed. I tried to partition it [create partition primary], which ran into a data error (CRC-check)
- Thinking there might've been some old issues with the former installation, I tried to format manually via diskpart, but the [list volume] returned nothing (only listing the apparently defunct DVD drive and the USB port).
Thus, I figured there could be an issue with bad sectors or something comparable.
- I ran checkdisk via the command prompt [checkdisk /r /f] which ran into a readonly error. I tried every fix I knew of and one I'd googled (checkdisk /r /f /x), (diskpart: attributes disk clear readonly), (registry: insert StorageDevicePolicies Key into HK_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM.../Control and set WriteProtect to 0.)
This didn't fix the issue.
Now I am left with a disk I cannot install Windows on, cannot format, cannot check for errors.
Again, I freely admit that I'm hardly even a layman at solving computer issues. But what little expertise I have has been exhausted.
So, my question is: Is this a hardware issue? Are there other things I can try?
Looking forward to your help. And thanks in advance
~
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