They cost about $35 or so and you can get at or amazon or eBay. This is what we Techs have to do on modern netbooks, minis, and ultrabooks like the Chromebook to repair them. If you bought it from a store, I'd take it back and make them give you dvd drive! Rubes! :angry:Īnother workaround is to buy an external usb dvd drive, set your Boot Priority to boot from the external dvd drive and run your Windows disc or repair tools from there. I've never seen a desktop tower without a cd/dvd drive. Since this is a desktop hard drive, you have a desktop is it Custom-Built? Specs such as Make-Model of your Motherboard and major components would help. I doubt it's relevant but my model is st2000dm001. Here is a pic of crystaldiskinfo reporting on it too: imgur: the simple image sharer Please somebody advise me what to do!? I'd love to get this hdd working rather than having to persuade seagate and having to RMA it, especially since it is my boot drive!
i'm surely not the only person who doesnt have a cd drive these days and i'm sure a lot of the time when hdds begin to fail, people aren't able to boot into regular mode and therefore cannot install exes. i find it surprising that there is no official usb bootable dos version. hopefully someone can help because i'm at my wit's end. My mobo's bios is up to date and i see these usb sticks in my bios hdd startup order and maybe that is the problem? but there is no way to change that? i'm not even sure that's the problem. Enter the full shell command line"įrom all my research it seems to say that freedos does not like that the usb is being identified as a usb-hdd rather than as a usb-fdd and it acts differently thinking it's on a large storage? I'm not sure about this but that is what I gleaned from other forums. "Bad or missing command line interpreter: /P /E:256. Tried making the USB tool on two different windows 8 pcs multiple times with different versions and two different usb sticks but everytime i got the same result: I've been trying to get Seatools to boot off a USB so I can either fix this or prove my hdd wrong but I cannot get it to work for the life of me. crystaldiskinfo had a caution warning and these highlighted yellow:Ĭurrent pending sector count and Uncorrectable sector count both read as current:100, worst:100, threshold:0, raw values: 000.8. I do not have a cd/dvd drive and my machine will only boot in safe mode which doesn't allow exes freezes immediately at start screen of windoze 8 in regular boot up.
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