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Hello so a few days ago I was trying to fix a problem with my computer where it would crash when I ran Garry's Mod. I forget exactly what I was doing.. (I think that I downloaded CCleaner) I cleaned everything and defragged and verified the integrity of the game cache, and then outta nowhere I got a BSOD. After I got this blue screen I checked the mini dump file, and the error was "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL." After I got this I rebooted my computer and everything was working well. I started up Garry's Mod and then bam. I got a another BSOD. Except this time when I tried to restart my computer it would let me into my BIOS, but it would not let windows start up. I've tried everything, I mean everything! It still would not boot up Windows. I tested my two ram cards by taking one out and seeing if would work, and then again with the other one. Still didn't boot. I reset my CMOS by taking the battery out of my motherboard. Still didn't work. I tried restoring it to last known good configuration. Still didn't work. Do you guys think it could be my hard-drive? If so how would I wipe my hard-drive without being able to boot into my computer? Or would I need to purchase a new hard-drive?




Specs: Windows 7 Home Premium
Graphics Card: Nvidia 650 Ti
Mobo: GA-Z77-DS3H
Hard Drive: Western Digital 500gb 7200 rpm
CPU: i5 3770k 3.3 ghz
 
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See if your drive is spinning up and is recognized by the BIOS. If you can see it in BIOS and it spins, you should be getting either a black screen after POST or an error reporting no boot device found, or NTLDR Missing or the like.

It sounds like your Windows boot files got mangled. There are utilities online for booting off USB to try to repair those files (Hirens for example, which has some HDD testing utilities built in.) Another method is to use your Windows install disc and tell it to repair your installation.

If it's because your drive is dead, you don't need to wipe it before replacing. If you want to prevent anyone from recovering your data and the drive is dead, you should physically destroy the drive. (Literally open...
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See if your drive is spinning up and is recognized by the BIOS. If you can see it in BIOS and it spins, you should be getting either a black screen after POST or an error reporting no boot device found, or NTLDR Missing or the like.

It sounds like your Windows boot files got mangled. There are utilities online for booting off USB to try to repair those files (Hirens for example, which has some HDD testing utilities built in.) Another method is to use your Windows install disc and tell it to repair your installation.

If it's because your drive is dead, you don't need to wipe it before replacing. If you want to prevent anyone from recovering your data and the drive is dead, you should physically destroy the drive. (Literally open the drive and chop up the platters)
 
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