It all began about 2 weeks ago, when the battery port of my Sony Vaio VPCF1 (2010 model if I remember correctly) broke apart completely.
After a week and a half of shipping, I was able to install a replacement part into my laptop. Lo and behold, the laptop could charge. But before I was to rejoice, the computer started to be really slow. I left dskchk stuck for 2 days before forcing shutdown, and Hiren's Boot CD showed 36% hard disk health in Hard Disk Sentinel.
At this point, I thought it was a bad sector problem, so after salvaging 60 GB of data, I left DRevitalize on HBCD running for 2 more days, before forcing shutdown again because it was moving at literally 1 sector per 20 minutes.
NowHD Sentinel had health at 0%, so I attempted to restored through Sony Vaio Rescue. It was able to reformat the drive, and Windows entered the new laptop setup, but after it did, it wasn't able to boot correctly.
So to make a long story short, through a variety of hard disk attempted repairs, I think I managed to completely destroy the drive. I also forced shut downs dozens of times, but only because all my attempts to repair the drive failed.
The laptop was working completely fine before the battery port broke and I did the repair. I don't recall dropping the hard drive when I took it out or anything, but I did move it around a bit. Are hard drives that sensitive?
So what should I do now? I wasn't able to clone the drive completely. Should I just throw away the laptop and get a new one? Or should I get a price $300+ repair? Or should I attempt to install a new hard drive of my own?
Thank you.
After a week and a half of shipping, I was able to install a replacement part into my laptop. Lo and behold, the laptop could charge. But before I was to rejoice, the computer started to be really slow. I left dskchk stuck for 2 days before forcing shutdown, and Hiren's Boot CD showed 36% hard disk health in Hard Disk Sentinel.
At this point, I thought it was a bad sector problem, so after salvaging 60 GB of data, I left DRevitalize on HBCD running for 2 more days, before forcing shutdown again because it was moving at literally 1 sector per 20 minutes.
NowHD Sentinel had health at 0%, so I attempted to restored through Sony Vaio Rescue. It was able to reformat the drive, and Windows entered the new laptop setup, but after it did, it wasn't able to boot correctly.
So to make a long story short, through a variety of hard disk attempted repairs, I think I managed to completely destroy the drive. I also forced shut downs dozens of times, but only because all my attempts to repair the drive failed.
The laptop was working completely fine before the battery port broke and I did the repair. I don't recall dropping the hard drive when I took it out or anything, but I did move it around a bit. Are hard drives that sensitive?
So what should I do now? I wasn't able to clone the drive completely. Should I just throw away the laptop and get a new one? Or should I get a price $300+ repair? Or should I attempt to install a new hard drive of my own?
Thank you.
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