Dell Inspiron 1525 with "Blue Screen"

flo5

Hi

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 which is nearly 3 years old. My daughter borowed it and it now has a "Blue Screen" It is runnning on Vista


I have been looking for answers but as l am a total idiot regarding technology a lot of what l have read is completely going over my head.

When l try and boot the laptop it comes up with a blue screen.

I have tried F12 as it will not let me open in safe mode

It has come up with the following error codes:

1: 0F00 - 075D !!!!!!_0 - The self -test failed the read test

2: 0F00 - 0244 Disk_ Block 184671161 Uncorrectable data error:eek:

Is there anything l can do to correct these errors?

It woudl be greatly appreciated if anyone has any suggestions that they dumb them down for me (sorry) but as l do not understand a lot of the terms that are used.

Many thanks

closed

Looks like a disk error, do you need any data off it?

does F8 safe mode with command prompt work?

justjohn

at a guess hd is goosed

atrixblue.-MFR-.

blue screen of death! hardrive my be gone, screen resolution too high but the error code cosistant with harddisk failure.

superrug_2

Try booting from the Vista installation [FONT=inherit ! important][FONT=inherit ! important]DVD[/FONT][/FONT] into the Recovery Console for the [FONT=inherit ! important][FONT=inherit ! important]command [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=inherit ! important][FONT=inherit ! important]prompt[/FONT][/FONT] The tutorial at the bottom will show you how. Just select [FONT=inherit ! important][FONT=inherit ! important]Command [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=inherit ! important][FONT=inherit ! important]Prompt[/FONT][/FONT]" in step 6 instead. When you are in the command prompt, run the chkdsk /f command.

Startup Repair

flo5

Hi

Many thanks to Closed, justjohn, atrixblue-MFR- and Superrug.

Really appreciate the suggestions

Regards

2010

I had the BS of Death on my old Dell and couldn`t save any data and had to restore to factory setting with Symantic, which is partitioned on the hard drive of a Dell.

Learnt me the lesson of always backing up onto an external hard drive.

closed

2010, If you lost some data, recuva deep scan may find some of it, even after a factory restore

atrixblue.-MFR-.

if the hardrive is that knackered from past the bios screen youll never be able to retreive data.

Hammyman

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

if the hardrive is that knackered from past the bios screen youll never be able to retreive data.

Not true. A lot of incorrect shutdowns (pressing power button and holding in without shutting Windows or pulling the power) can cause data corruption which throws up a blue screen. Usually booting off a Linux Live CD allows the drive to be mounted and data transferred to USB prior to a full wipe and format using manufacturers utilities.