Reinstall, reformat

[cje]

My hard drive has become corrupted. I had to reinstall vista yesterday as it didnt boot up. Even safe mode froze on crcdisk.sys. I reinstalled yesterday, and the same thing has happened today. I didn't reformat before the last reinstall, and its suffered a LOT of BSODS recently due to overlcok failures.

Do I need to reformat the disk? If so, how can I do this with the windows vista install cd? Or do I have to take it out and stick it in another pc?

Cheers lads.

 

[Angst]

try your system with only one stick of ram in
if you want to format your hdd use your vista cd, when it gets to the point were you have to choose which hdd to install on click advanced options and then a few options will appear and one of them is format

 

[cje]

Nah, doesn't want to know. Just after the last BSOD, the contiguity disk checker thingy ran. I took the HDD out, and stuck it via usb into another pc. I found bootex.txt on the C: drive. This is what it says:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.


One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
The USA check value, 0xa96, at block 0x3 is incorrect.
The expected value is 0x896.
The multi-sector header signature in file 0xc804 is incorrect.
42 41 41 44 30 00 03 00 92 b3 76 51 05 00 00 00 BAAD0.....vQ....
15 00 02 00 38 00 01 00 d8 01 00 00 00 04 00 00 ....8...........
Deleting corrupt file record segment 51204.
The attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x3 has bad mapping pairs.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 55138.
Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x4 is cross linked
starting at 0x248 for possibly 0x1 clusters.
Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x4 is cross linked
starting at 0x248 for possibly 0x1 clusters.
Some clusters occupied by attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x4
in file 0x16b59 is already in use.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 93017.
264640 file records processed.

1476 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

0 EA records processed.

86 reparse records processed.

Index entry tmp.edb of index $I30 in file 0x2f20 points to unused file 0x16a20.
Deleting index entry tmp.edb in index $I30 of file 12064.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry index
of index $I30 with parent 0xa32a in file 0xa346.
Deleting index entry index in index $I30 of file 41770.
Index entry ntuser.dat.LOG1 of index $I30 in file 0xa4fb points to unused file 0xc804.
Deleting index entry ntuser.dat.LOG1 in index $I30 of file 42235.
Index entry NTUSER~1.LOG of index $I30 in file 0xa4fb points to unused file 0xc804.
Deleting index entry NTUSER~1.LOG in index $I30 of file 42235.
Index entry CyberLink PowerDVD of index $I30 in file 0xa50c points to unused file 0x17122.
Deleting index entry CyberLink PowerDVD in index $I30 of file 42252.
Index entry CYBERL~1 of index $I30 in file 0xa50c points to unused file 0x17122.
Deleting index entry CYBERL~1 in index $I30 of file 42252.
The file reference 0xa00000000a4bf of index entry index.dat of index $I30
with parent 0xa515 is not the same as 0x900000000a4bf.
Deleting index entry index.dat in index $I30 of file 42261.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry Garden.jpg
of index $I30 with parent 0xb90e in file 0xc806.
Deleting index entry Garden.jpg in index $I30 of file 47374.
Index entry 1T0V43SN of index $I30 in file 0xcec5 points to unused file 0x161d4.
Deleting index entry 1T0V43SN in index $I30 of file 52933.
Index entry L7P903M7 of index $I30 in file 0xcec5 points to unused file 0x13944.
Deleting index entry L7P903M7 in index $I30 of file 52933.
Index entry RQ3MKZOK of index $I30 in file 0xcec5 points to unused file 0x1640e.
Deleting index entry RQ3MKZOK in index $I30 of file 52933.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry MSHist012009020520090206
of index $I30 with parent 0xcec8 in file 0xceb0.
Deleting index entry MSHist012009020520090206 in index $I30 of file 52936.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry Wrinkled_Paper.gif
of index $I30 with parent 0xcf43 in file 0x16168.
Deleting index entry Wrinkled_Paper.gif in index $I30 of file 53059.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry RUNDLL~2.PF
of index $I30 with parent 0x16a41 in file 0x16ad8.
Deleting index entry RUNDLL~2.PF in index $I30 of file 92737.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry SVCHOST.EXE-2A6E95B3.pf
of index $I30 with parent 0x16a41 in file 0xa331.
Deleting index entry SVCHOST.EXE-2A6E95B3.pf in index $I30 of file 92737.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry SVCHOST.EXE-4D8DA32A.pf
of index $I30 with parent 0x16a41 in file 0xa336.
Deleting index entry SVCHOST.EXE-4D8DA32A.pf in index $I30 of file 92737.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry SVCHOS~4.PF
of index $I30 with parent 0x16a41 in file 0xa331.
Deleting index entry SVCHOS~4.PF in index $I30 of file 92737.
The file reference 0x7400000000f0b5 of index entry store.lock of index $I30
with parent 0x1755c is not the same as 0x2200000000f0b5.
Deleting index entry store.lock in index $I30 of file 95580.
The file reference 0x7400000000f0b5 of index entry STORE~1.LOC of index $I30
with parent 0x1755c is not the same as 0x2200000000f0b5.
Deleting index entry STORE~1.LOC in index $I30 of file 95580.
The file reference 0x2b0000000136ea of index entry store.lock of index $I30
with parent 0x1755e is not the same as 0x2a0000000136ea.
Deleting index entry store.lock in index $I30 of file 95582.
The file reference 0x2b0000000136ea of index entry STORE~1.LOC of index $I30
with parent 0x1755e is not the same as 0x2a0000000136ea.
Deleting index entry STORE~1.LOC in index $I30 of file 95582.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry twain_32.dll
of index $I30 with parent 0x2a477 in file 0x2c9ff.
Deleting index entry twain_32.dll in index $I30 of file 173175.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry winhelp.exe
of index $I30 with parent 0x2a477 in file 0x2ca04.
Deleting index entry winhelp.exe in index $I30 of file 173175.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry winhlp32.exe
of index $I30 with parent 0x2a477 in file 0x2ca06.
Deleting index entry winhlp32.exe in index $I30 of file 173175.
328010 index entries processed.

CHKDSK is recovering lost files.
Recovering orphaned file SVࡃHOS~4.PF (41777) into directory file 92737.
Recovering orphaned file SVCHOST.EXࡅ-2A6E95B3.pf (41777) into directory file 92737.
Recovering orphaned file SVCHOST.EXࡅ-4D8DA32A.pf (41782) into directory file 92737.
Recovering orphaned file in।ex (41798) into directory file 41770.
Recovering orphaned file RGYK805D (42175) into directory file 52933.
Recovering orphaned file Gaᡲden.jpg (51206) into directory file 47374.
Recovering orphaned file MSHist0120࠰9020520090206 (52912) into directory file 52936.
Recovering orphaned file WXKW9RZD (61621) into directory file 52933.
Recovering orphaned file Wrinkl॥d_Paper.gif (90472) into directory file 53059.
Recovering orphaned file RUᅎDLL~2.PF (92888) into directory file 92737.
Recovering orphaned file twain_32.dll (182783) into directory file 173175.
Recovering orphaned file winhelp.exe (182788) into directory file 173175.
18 unindexed files processed.

Recovering orphaned file winhlp32.exe (182790) into directory file 173175.
264640 security descriptors processed.

Cleaning up 1901 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1901 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 1901 unused security descriptors.
Inserting data attribute into file 55138.
Inserting data attribute into file 93017.
31688 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
The remaining of an USN page at offset 0xd4c77320 in file 0xb6aa
should be filled with zeros.
The USN Journal entry at offset 0xd4c78000 and length 0x58dc4208 crosses
the page boundary.
The USN Journal entry at offset 0xd4c79000 and length 0x28b29492 crosses
the page boundary.
Repairing Usn Journal file record segment.
37465744 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

625129471 KB total disk space.
377122408 KB in 192097 files.
145228 KB in 31689 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
388823 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
247473012 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
156282367 total allocation units on disk.
61868253 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
c0 09 04 00 33 6a 03 00 b8 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 ....3j..........
b9 35 00 00 56 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .5..V...........
d0 19 12 00 48 01 12 00 9f 07 00 98 38 50 14 00 ....H.......8P..

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Think it would be OK if I just reformatted it from this pc via a USB connection? Or use the vista install cd?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Yeah mate just nuke it from the other PC then fresh install.

Id install the bare minimum/programs you use all the time and image it tbh, saved me a LOT of hassle multiple times both with my own PCs and building for others.

I would recommend Acronis, dirt cheap for the amount of times its saved me from hours of reinstallin bits and pieces

 

[cje]

Yeah, just splashed out for Acronis today. Forgive me for sounding dumb, but what is the best way to "nuke" it from this pc to make sure it'll be nice and clean for a fresh install?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

just a format mate, I'd do a full format tho if you've had issues with the disc just to be safe.

Right click my computer > manage > disc management

Would be faster formatting if you connected it up via IDE/sata than USB tho, I'd recommend that way.

of course once youve got the disc back up and running my normal approach is...

Windows, Chipset Drivers, Windows SP/updates, invaluable programs, office/DVD burning/Media players n such, Winrar and other utils.

I run ccleaner and perfectdisc after every few installs just to make sure, once all the bare basics are done run a full defrag with data placement *smart placement I think perfectdisc calls it) then pop in acronis and get yer image made. Its relatively fast too for the amount it stores so dont be afraid to up the compression in the advanced settings. I normally manage to get an XP image/install onto a single DVD using the medium compression on acronis, last was 3.7Gb iirc.

One other thing,
If you split yer main driver Windows/Games/Storeage as most people seem to do now, another quick trick to get ye up and running as fast as possible after a windows corruption/issue is to remap all your folders such as my docs/music and outlook folders to a seperate drive. That way when you run the image you can be rest assured everything is where it should be and you've lost (hopefully) minimal amount of data from the issue.

One thing I missed on my last one was all my email message rules TT wasn't fun lol

 

[cje]

Cheers mate. I don't think I can open up this Dell pc to get the HDD in. Still under warranty. I'll just have to use USB.

 

[cje]

I can't reformat it on this pc! I click on format, and it says "you do not have sufficient rights to perform this action". What do I do? I'm running an Administrator account on this pc now...

EDit- I think I got it going. The disk management utility says the drive type is RAW. Lucky I just copied my work over.