Okay, so as some of you may have seen a previous post about me calling dell about my harddrive.
Well when this happened, a month before i called dell, i got a BSOD on bootup, saying UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. So with that i figured i might as well try a format, and see what happens. But before i did, i ran a diagnostics, and it came back as failed. So then i proceeded to format out of curiousity. The format was a success, but in windows, it was running slowly.
So a month later i call dell. They ask me to do what i did the month before basically, then they ship me a new harddrive. So thats fine, i got my harddrive a week or 2 ago. It's been working fine until tonight. I noticed my laptop was running slow, so, i decided to reboot (since i use hibernate alot on my laptop and i reboot when necessary or twice a week). So i reboot, and i get this BSOD , saying Unmountable boot Volume once again! So i hop on this pc, and have a look on google for a solution to this, since this is a new harddrive. I found this http://www.kenmc.com/2007/10/08/unmountable-boot-volume-dell-fix/
And i tried to do that. I tried chkdsk /r and it stopped at 26% and gives me
"The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems."
So i'm guessing my new hd i just got is pretty much borked. My warranty is due to expire january 4th. I'm going to be at my dads all christmas holidays, cuz my grandparents are going to my aunts for christmas (monday coming actually), and they dont get back till the 6th (the laptop is in my grandfathers name btw).
So.... I am really really ticked here... Is there anything anyone can suggest i do as far as recovery goes? Cuz i got alot of coding work on there, that i'd like to salvage if possible. I have SOME backups, but some of it is original documents so... yeah...
Well when this happened, a month before i called dell, i got a BSOD on bootup, saying UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. So with that i figured i might as well try a format, and see what happens. But before i did, i ran a diagnostics, and it came back as failed. So then i proceeded to format out of curiousity. The format was a success, but in windows, it was running slowly.
So a month later i call dell. They ask me to do what i did the month before basically, then they ship me a new harddrive. So thats fine, i got my harddrive a week or 2 ago. It's been working fine until tonight. I noticed my laptop was running slow, so, i decided to reboot (since i use hibernate alot on my laptop and i reboot when necessary or twice a week). So i reboot, and i get this BSOD , saying Unmountable boot Volume once again! So i hop on this pc, and have a look on google for a solution to this, since this is a new harddrive. I found this http://www.kenmc.com/2007/10/08/unmountable-boot-volume-dell-fix/
And i tried to do that. I tried chkdsk /r and it stopped at 26% and gives me
"The volume appears to contain one or more unrecoverable problems."
So i'm guessing my new hd i just got is pretty much borked. My warranty is due to expire january 4th. I'm going to be at my dads all christmas holidays, cuz my grandparents are going to my aunts for christmas (monday coming actually), and they dont get back till the 6th (the laptop is in my grandfathers name btw).
So.... I am really really ticked here... Is there anything anyone can suggest i do as far as recovery goes? Cuz i got alot of coding work on there, that i'd like to salvage if possible. I have SOME backups, but some of it is original documents so... yeah...
so i'm good for another year.