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Lazypsudeonym

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Registered: 2013-12-24

Posts: 22

Disguised Failed Harddrive

I booted my laptop this morning, a dual booting Waldorf/Vista rig, and it ran just fine. A few hours later, I come back, and I try to boot into Waldorf. When I do, I get, abbreviated, "DRDY ERR UNC."

After learning that this means a hard disk failure, I tried to boot in the Vista partition. It booted fine, I logged in, went into another room while Vista took its sweet time loading everything. When I came back, the screen was black and unresponsive.

I did a hard shutdown, and am running a repair as I type this.

Does anyone know what I need to do?

wmdiem

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2008-12-26

Posts: 187

Re: Disguised Failed Harddrive

Have you made backups of any important data on the drive (either recently prior to the issue, or after the issue arose, from a live cd)?
Have you run smartctl on the drive (just to see what its state looks like)?
Assuming its a hardware failure, I don't know how much you can do other than trying to get any data off that you can still read and getting another drive for the machine.
Good luck.