First I'd like to apologize if there are any other questions like this in the forum. I spent a good hour 1/2 to try and find a similar situation to the one I'm in however no luck.
WD 1TB HDD bought in 2011 Exactly as:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/1TB-inch-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411927511&sr=8-1&keywords=WD+HDD
Computer crashed randomly after installing steam game then would not reboot. Fortunately I have a laptop, USB memory stick and a good internet connection. I downloaded windows 8.1 and popped it on a memory stick with windows boot manager to assist.
Windows was unable to repair WD HDD as the drive was being "locked". As a result I cleaned and reformatted my 500GB, unplugged the WD HDD and installed windows 8.1 (today).
Extra information: The HDD is able to be seen by CMD, boot manager. I can't access my user profile from my windows 8.1 installation. I have used chkdsk and results are inconclusive as it has taken over 2 hours for the bar to get past the first 10th. So my HDD is definitely knackered.
My question thus far is that, if I back up my all of my important data on the WD HDD, would i be able to use windows 8.1 to repair whatever it is wrong with the WD HDD? I'm currently using a trial version of windows 8.1 and would like to have my legit computer back ASAP as I'm going to uni tomorrow!
Thanks and would you be able to redirect me to the same post that has a similar situation with with this if that has been resolved? Thanks a bunch guys
WD 1TB HDD bought in 2011 Exactly as:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/1TB-inch-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411927511&sr=8-1&keywords=WD+HDD
Computer crashed randomly after installing steam game then would not reboot. Fortunately I have a laptop, USB memory stick and a good internet connection. I downloaded windows 8.1 and popped it on a memory stick with windows boot manager to assist.
Windows was unable to repair WD HDD as the drive was being "locked". As a result I cleaned and reformatted my 500GB, unplugged the WD HDD and installed windows 8.1 (today).
Extra information: The HDD is able to be seen by CMD, boot manager. I can't access my user profile from my windows 8.1 installation. I have used chkdsk and results are inconclusive as it has taken over 2 hours for the bar to get past the first 10th. So my HDD is definitely knackered.
My question thus far is that, if I back up my all of my important data on the WD HDD, would i be able to use windows 8.1 to repair whatever it is wrong with the WD HDD? I'm currently using a trial version of windows 8.1 and would like to have my legit computer back ASAP as I'm going to uni tomorrow!
Thanks and would you be able to redirect me to the same post that has a similar situation with with this if that has been resolved? Thanks a bunch guys
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