Boot USB stuck in blue screen

Scapzy

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Aug 17, 2016
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Hello guys!

2 days ago my PC started acting strange, it was really slow.
i ran my antivirus and malwarebytes but no results.
when i opened Task Manager i saw that my Hard Drive was at 100% usage. i tried disabling superfetch ect. and it only worked for a while.
today my PC wouldnt boot past the: "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete.".
So i decided to make a bootable USB to do a clean install.
but now it's been stuck in a blue screen with only my cursor on it for the past 10mins, could it be that it just takes a long time for it to start up?
or is it just my hdd (WD cav blue 1tb) that's dying/dead?

Thank you.
~Scapzy
 

Scapzy

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Aug 17, 2016
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Yikes, that worked. so does this mean i need to buy a new drive?
 


yea sounds like it. if you are able to boot back into windows at all then backup everything you can and start looking at replacing it

 

Scapzy

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Aug 17, 2016
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I only have 1 USB with me at the moment don't really wan't to make it a bootable again ill just order another hard drive. thanks

 

Scapzy

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Aug 17, 2016
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1,510


Ok i will buy one right now, thanks! any chance i will be able to retrieve some data from the drive?