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palcal

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Posted: 03:22am 22 Aug 2019
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My Laptop HDD went kaput so I bought a new SSD. Grogster did this a little while back.
My problem is I have mounted the drive and I have a windows installation disk but how do I format the drive. The installation starts and loads some files but then throws an error.
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KeepIS

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Posted: 04:32am 22 Aug 2019
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Wondering what the error message said?

From memory the install disk will either format the disk or ask you how you want it initialised / formatted as far as partitions and or sizes.

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palcal

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Posted: 04:49am 22 Aug 2019
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Yes I thought the installation disk would take care of it, I will check on the error again and see if I can research it on the web.
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bigmik

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Posted: 04:57am 22 Aug 2019
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Hi Paul,

I was able to access this thread by clicking on the DATE field..

Which windows version?

AFAIK they all will format the drive for you

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Mick
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palcal

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Posted: 05:54am 22 Aug 2019
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when I originally got the message (BSOD  0x0000007B ) I thought it must be a faulty drive so I bought a new SSD to replage the old HDD. But still get the message so now think it must be a different fault.
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bigmik

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Posted: 06:21am 22 Aug 2019
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Paul,

Are you sure your laptop HDD is faulty then?

Maybe your motherboard is kaputski?

Try the HDD (old) in a USB caddy and plug it into your PC and see if it works ok.
Mind you the HDD may have killed your laptop or vice-versa.

If you want I am always happy to try to recover the data off your drive for you.. PM if interested.

Kind Regards,

Mick
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palcal

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Posted: 08:50am 22 Aug 2019
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Thanks Mick but all files were backed up.
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