windows issue again... can't restore or connect to internet

mts

OK need some help as I feel my next step is to drop kick my wife's laptop out into the rain.

My wife has had a screen popping up saying that there was an issue with the disk and it would also start to check but cancel out.

she had been saying it was acting weird. So thinking it might be a disk drive error i tried to defrag it. it wouldn't let me do it saying that the volume was in use or something like that.

trying to run dskchk or whetver the command was gave me the same error. so i restarted in safe mode and was finally able to run dskchk and it came up with nothing.

thinking my problems were fixed, i restart but i was totally wrong.

first thing i notice is the them is changed on it. a minor problem there

first major issue.

can't connect to the internet with the requisite can't even search for wireless networks

i try to run system restore on it and it says somethign to the effect of system restore can't protect your computer , please restart and run system restore again. which is a lie. it doesn't do that.

i still can't run defrag on it. i am currently running ad-aware but i doubt it will do much

i think the antivirus got disabled so i think maybe its some sort of virus.
edit: i can in fact check for viruses..am doing now

though i wonder if the disk drive is just shitting the bed

anyone have any suggestions?

theclam

If your hard drive is dying, then you can get all kinds of weird errors. You should run:
chkdsk c: /r

The /r is important, it will actually check for disk errors. It won't let you run it in windows, you'll have to schedule it to run next time you start up your computer (it can take up to a couple hours).

mts

that was the initial problem
it would start to check than crap out halfway through

mts

to add. i ran this and it still doesn't work right

superthug1999

i have the same problem. i tried system restore, and its a dead link. when i tried it in safe mode, system restore is a notepad file.

mts

hmm.
So here is an update.

I can't run system restore, it says something to the effect that system restore can't protect your computer, restart and try again.

i also tried using recovery cds and it said they were not specific to the pc even though they were made on it

Further i ran some diagnostics, and the disk checks out fine as did the memory. i tried to boot in safe mode and run a virus check that way, but it wouldn't let me.
i also can't uninstall anything.

i am wondering now if its a virus rather than a bad sector.

Goose!

I have a serious issue, cannot make new threads, and need some help asap, so I went looking for the closest related subject to my predicament.

I posted this over in the tech subforum, but I get the feeling more people view this forum than that one, and might be able to help me better or more quickly.

I'm fucked now. I went from a working install of Windows 7 and a functioning but not responding to keyboard and mouse input install of XP to squat in the span of a couple hours.

-I used partition magic to attempt to format my normal C: drive and keep the S: drive that had the Windows 7 install in tact. Wanted to just totally use my whole HD on that. The format failed as soon as it started.
-I went to start back up and it would get to the hardware specs screen and just freeze.
-Turned it off for a while, and just now came back to it, and the computer tower turns on and it sounds like its running, but nothing displays on the monitor, and it's almost like something happened to the video card (which I haven't touched throughout the installation).

I have no onboard video on my mobo, so I don't know what I can do to fix it.

I need help.