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MattAKline

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I recently had the motherboard on my laptop replaced (I assume) because it was not charging properly. When it was returned to me, I got a "disk read error" on startup. The laptop has 2x 2.5" WD Scorpio Black 500gb HDDs in raid 0. This is not my main problem but if there is advice regarding this it's also appreciated.

My main problem is I replaced the 2 drives for the boot SSD (Intel 480gb) from my tower, and it was booting fine until the SSD came loose in the laptop. The computer immediately went into blue screen and I quickly tried to power it down. I secured the SSD so it wouldn't move then restarted. The boot got exactly as far as it had the first time ("Starting Windows" and the little loading animation), then flashed blue screen for a split second and crashed. I am able to launch windows system recovery but it was unsuccessful. I was however able to restore the system to a previous point/backup, but it still did the blue screen crash thing at the Starting Windows screen.

Any idea what I'm looking at here? Is it fried, does it just need to be wiped, or is there a way to recover it? And any ideas on the disk read error on the 2x HDDs would be great, data on those is more important to me.

Thanks!
 
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I haven't reinstalled windows as the disc is in the US with my wife and I'm in Germany. She will get here in a week and a half and bring it.

I've run chkdsk and it found no issues, though it said there were only 400 files and 400mb of space or something but maybe that is I just one partition? Also have tried restarting a few times and it always gets to exactly 3 seconds into the windows startup and flashes a generic blue screen error.

Would I be able to reinstall windows without losing files?
 
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At this point you have nothing to lose, it sounds like the drive became corrupted and you might get lucky and avoid a full re-install by trying a system file check and repair.

Boot into the command prompt. We are looking for the drive letter that has the USERS folder in it.
Type in "C:" and hit enter. Followed by "DIR" and enter
Repeat for using D:, followed by E: F: if needed (its usually D: )
Once you figure out which drive letter (C: or D: or E: ) type in
sfc /scannow /offbootdir=X:\ /offwindir=X:\windows
{replace X: with the drive letter you came up with}

This will take quite a while so make sure its plugged in and you have something else to do.
 
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