Window errors

roberts · 30 Dec 2008 at 10:43

HI Guys,
I have had a laptop for a year now and for a few months been getting errors regarding such as Bad Image and various files being corrup and undereadable.
Often the keyboard and touchpad won't work either so I have to plug in usb kepyboard, is there a problem with the hard drive or will a reformat of the c:/ parition be enough?
I assume the other partitions won't be affected by the reformat?

roberts · 30 Dec 2008 at 18:45

roberts said:
HI Guys,
I have had a laptop for a year now and for a few months been getting errors regarding such as Bad Image and various files being corrup and undereadable.
Often the keyboard and touchpad won't work either so I have to plug in usb kepyboard, is there a problem with the hard drive or will a reformat of the c:/ parition be enough?
I assume the other partitions won't be affected by the reformat?

Any one know what these errors are?

BigBoy · 30 Dec 2008 at 20:12

need more info mate the exact error information and a full spec of your laptops hardware would be very helpful.

suarve · 30 Dec 2008 at 20:14

Have you tried running a scandisk?

Brian Stuart · 30 Dec 2008 at 23:10

Try Ultimate Boot CD to test RAM and HDD without booting into Windows. If no errors then backup and reinstall. If all your data is on a seperate partition then a reinstall will not affect it.

roberts · 31 Dec 2008 at 13:57

Brian Stuart said:
Try Ultimate Boot CD to test RAM and HDD without booting into Windows. If no errors then backup and reinstall. If all your data is on a seperate partition then a reinstall will not affect it.

Thanks for the responses guys, I have core duo 2ghz laptop with windows xp with 120 gb hard drive. Will try UltimateBoot CD.