Windows uninstalling itself

Quakemz · Jan 17, 2014

I'm trying to fix my friend's 3~ year old laptop. I've been able to install windows 7 successfully, but then the next day, it uninstalls itself. I've never seen this before. It makes me think it's a hardware problem. Potentially a HDD issue? It has an AMD CPU so it does get rather hot in there after long HD video sessions. It got up to 85c after watching a 3 minute music video in HD. So I'm starting to think the heat has started to damage some of the components. Any ideas or advice would be helpful!

J-Mello · Jan 17, 2014

Well I've never herd of Windows 7 uninstalling itself but I can tell you that it's definitely overheating and that could cause internal problems.

Quakemz · Jan 17, 2014

J-Mello :

Yeah he hasn't really taken very good care of this laptop. When I started doing some temp test I was pretty shocked at how high they were. It cracked the 90c mark pretty often watching a lot of netflix in HD.

But yeah, when I went to turn it on, it tried to load windows files and begin the installation, even after I had installed it already and was using it the day before. It's almost like it wiped it from the HDD.

J-Mello · Jan 17, 2014

Seems like it's resetting the HDD and repairs for that on an older laptop aren't really worth the cost.

Quakemz · Jan 17, 2014

J-Mello :

Oh god no. I would never even think about repairing this. I'm just going to build him a desktop instead. Since the laptop never moves from the same spot. I had just never experienced this before so I was curious.

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