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Notebook/Vista woes
guar
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This morning I discovered the BSoD on my Vista machine, and after rebooting it runs at a snails pace. Firefox runs slower than normal and hangs pretty much constantly. Windows Explorer does pretty much the same. I figure reformatting will be easier than trying to fix the problem, so I start backing up my files. I don't have a lot on the machine, so there isn't much I have to transfer over to my external HDD. After another reboot, I find my external has been wiped. Not of the 'everything has been deleted' variety, but more of the 'this machine does not recognize the file system, you should format this partition before use'. Awesome.
I suppose this is more me venting than asking for advice, but if anyone can provide any insight into what is going on, I'd appreciate it.
I suppose this is more me venting than asking for advice, but if anyone can provide any insight into what is going on, I'd appreciate it.
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Not really sure what would make the external drive do that unless you stopped it mid-write or something silly like that. Or again, maybe a bad HDD. But check the RAM first. Just bring up System Properties and make sure it's all there to start with.