- Oct 29, 2012
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Hey everyone,
Was using my computer fine today (Playing BF3, iTunes) until it started freezing up and becoming unresponsive. I restarted the computer, and I'm now unable to use anything on my HDD due to the error "'D:\ ... .exe' is not a valid Win32 application."
I haven't downloaded anything recently to consider this a malware threat, and a scan by MBAM came up empty on flash and quick scan. I can see my drive in my computer, and i can select "properties" just fine as well as see storage used up/total available. When I click to access it, though, my computer freezes and gives me disk errors (I/O error), however in device manager it's listed as "working fine."
EDIT: As of writing, the drive disappeared from the computer during the night. Will post tomorrow if a computer restart worked.
I downloaded HDDscan from MHDD and it shows green lights for all but a red X (Reallocation Sector Count), and a caution sign for Reallocation Event Count. The link to a picture I took is here: http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9878/37n6.jpg. Sorry for quality, paint, and every other program of mine, saves by default to the drive in question, and thus hangs.
When I open up Performance Monitor, I see 100% activity on the drive in question, as well as an alternating 8, then 0, 16, then 0 again on "Disk Queue."
I downloaded SeaGate tools, but the drive doesn't show. The drive also does not show in disk partition.
My drive is a Western Digital WD7502AAEX 750 GB drive, with a . Unfortunately, I do not have a second hard drive to back up files to (if possible), although I'll try to buy one in the next few days. Regardless, if there are any solutions that don't include formatting the drive (since there's 720 GB or so of data I'd like to keep), I'm all ears...although any response is better than none. The HDD driver file is version "6.1.7600.16385" from 6/21/2006. Should i look for an updated one? Should I try defragging?
Thanks for the time, hopefully this was descriptive enough. If you need anything more, let me know. I've had this hard drive for over 2 years without incident, I'm surprised it's acting up.
SOLUTION: Using a System Recovery Bootable CD, I was able to run dd_rescue and clone the broken HDD to my new, larger one. After that, windows thought it only had the capacity that my old one had, so to expand the partition to the new HDD's full size, I had to boot into the CD again, and use GParted to expand the partition to the full size.
Was using my computer fine today (Playing BF3, iTunes) until it started freezing up and becoming unresponsive. I restarted the computer, and I'm now unable to use anything on my HDD due to the error "'D:\ ... .exe' is not a valid Win32 application."
I haven't downloaded anything recently to consider this a malware threat, and a scan by MBAM came up empty on flash and quick scan. I can see my drive in my computer, and i can select "properties" just fine as well as see storage used up/total available. When I click to access it, though, my computer freezes and gives me disk errors (I/O error), however in device manager it's listed as "working fine."
EDIT: As of writing, the drive disappeared from the computer during the night. Will post tomorrow if a computer restart worked.
I downloaded HDDscan from MHDD and it shows green lights for all but a red X (Reallocation Sector Count), and a caution sign for Reallocation Event Count. The link to a picture I took is here: http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9878/37n6.jpg. Sorry for quality, paint, and every other program of mine, saves by default to the drive in question, and thus hangs.
When I open up Performance Monitor, I see 100% activity on the drive in question, as well as an alternating 8, then 0, 16, then 0 again on "Disk Queue."
I downloaded SeaGate tools, but the drive doesn't show. The drive also does not show in disk partition.
My drive is a Western Digital WD7502AAEX 750 GB drive, with a . Unfortunately, I do not have a second hard drive to back up files to (if possible), although I'll try to buy one in the next few days. Regardless, if there are any solutions that don't include formatting the drive (since there's 720 GB or so of data I'd like to keep), I'm all ears...although any response is better than none. The HDD driver file is version "6.1.7600.16385" from 6/21/2006. Should i look for an updated one? Should I try defragging?
Thanks for the time, hopefully this was descriptive enough. If you need anything more, let me know. I've had this hard drive for over 2 years without incident, I'm surprised it's acting up.
SOLUTION: Using a System Recovery Bootable CD, I was able to run dd_rescue and clone the broken HDD to my new, larger one. After that, windows thought it only had the capacity that my old one had, so to expand the partition to the new HDD's full size, I had to boot into the CD again, and use GParted to expand the partition to the full size.
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