Dell Studio 1735 hard drive fail

newuser86

Can someone help me find a diagnostic tool for a dell stuido 1735 to check the hard drive. Its my brothers laptop and when it turns on it freezes on the vista loading screen. I have tried to format the hard drive using windows xp discs but the BSOD comes on just before i get the option to format.

Thnks for the help

closed

have you wiped the recovery partition, if not, restore to factory defaults, assuming you are happy to lose your data.

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&docid=3E48AE3870775D64E040A68F5B2877D4

newuser86

I dont really have a choice, i have managed to run dell diagnostics and got in CMd where i have enabled chkdsk for restart, see what happens.

newuser86

i'm hoping a virus is the problem and has caused problems to the hard drive which may be possibly fixed but its dead to the world at the moment

MICKG_3

Hi

I would suggest you download the iso of Hiren's Boot cd. There are HD Diagnostic tools within Hiren Plus loads of other usefull apps.

Hope this helps

dispossessed

Or try The Ultimate Boot CD - Loads of useful tools

Trevor

spakkker

Is the bios seeing the hdd?