I've had my G50VT for about 5 months now, and I've had very few problems with it until now. A few weeks ago I had an error box pop up when I booted up from LoginUI.exe saying \WindowsNT was unreadable. I checked the folder, and Explorer would pop up with an error saying the folder was corrupt/unreadable and suggested running CHKDSK. I tried running check disk, but because the folder was in C:\ I couldn't run it while Windows was. I tried having it run CHKDSK after a reboot, doing everything I could try, but no matter what I did CHKDSK would not run. I also ran the memory check to make sure that wasn't the problem, no errors there.
I eventually gave up and reinstalled Vista using the supplied recovery disks, and got back to where everything was working again. Until now.
A week ago I get the same error. It's a few different folders, but WindowsNT is still unreadable. So now I'm pretty sure it's a bad hard drive, and I'm left with a few questions.
First, I'm planning on getting two new hard drives (replace the bad one and add another) and reinstall Vista onto the new drives. But I only have the recovery disks, so would I be able to reinstall Vista with just the recovery and driver disks? I know the HDD the laptop came with had a small partition with ASS stuff on it.
Second, I would really like to have two partitions on the first drive. One large enough for Vista, and the rest for movies/music/games. However, the recovery disks only allow me to format with the two partitions with pre-determined capacities, or the entire drive. Is there a way I can go about doing so without an actual Vista disk? (I do have one, but it's in NJ and I'm in SC with the coast guard)
Thanks.
I eventually gave up and reinstalled Vista using the supplied recovery disks, and got back to where everything was working again. Until now.
A week ago I get the same error. It's a few different folders, but WindowsNT is still unreadable. So now I'm pretty sure it's a bad hard drive, and I'm left with a few questions.
First, I'm planning on getting two new hard drives (replace the bad one and add another) and reinstall Vista onto the new drives. But I only have the recovery disks, so would I be able to reinstall Vista with just the recovery and driver disks? I know the HDD the laptop came with had a small partition with ASS stuff on it.
Second, I would really like to have two partitions on the first drive. One large enough for Vista, and the rest for movies/music/games. However, the recovery disks only allow me to format with the two partitions with pre-determined capacities, or the entire drive. Is there a way I can go about doing so without an actual Vista disk? (I do have one, but it's in NJ and I'm in SC with the coast guard)
Thanks.
