MEGA-Laptop issue!

[JakeG92]

Okay so a few days ago, my Asus N55SF-S2342V was crashing while trying to export from Audacity. So I turned the laptop off, but when I turned it back on, I received a message saying, "A disk read error occured. Press alt+ctrl+del to restart." Do so, would only loop the laptop back to the same message.

I couldn't boot into any of the 3 safe modes... all I got were black screens and a cursor and sometimes a command prompt while did nothing.

So I grabbed my 6 Asus Recovery disks and let them do their thing which took just over an hour to complete. This is the strange part.

I come to the Asus Preload Wizard which asks me if I want to Recover Windows to the first Partition, to the entire Hard drive, or with 2 patitions. No matter which one I pick, it always fails. Various command prompts appear and when DiskPart.exe appears, it hangs on 0% for a little while and then displays the message, "DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect. See the System Event Log for more information."

Is my hard drive broken? Do I need a new one? Or is there something incredibly obvious that I'm missing?

Please reply ASAP!

Cheers, Jake!

 

[JakeG92]

Google and download Seatools for DOS

Create a bootable CD. Run the long test.

Be prepared to see your hard drive is fubared messages

All I get is this

Time for an SSD upgrade fella

Regards.

C

Could I just buy a new 2.5" SATA Drive, stick it in the laptop and Install Windows... an easy fix?

 

[JakeG92]

You could take the drives out and see what they look like on a desktop (if you have one available). Being able to get into an OS will give you a lot more tools for recovery.

I have an external enclosure for an Internal Drive... would that work?
Tried that a few day's ago but say's I need to format before viewing the drive... reluctant to then because of all my stuff, but I can probably easily recover it later...

Good idea or....?