Newlaptop will not start Vista Ult 64. Stalls in safe mood at crcdisk.sys
New Sager laptop w/ quad core, 4(2x2Gb Dimms), 500 GB Seagate HDD. Spent the better part of a week consolidating files from 7 ext drives and more jump drives to on machine. Redundant data was deleted and having finished, went to create a drive image for backup. System crashed before, of course. 1. holds during install as the green bars move along then flash of BSOD, too fast to read, restart, Tried Safe mood, halts at crcdisk,sys. Tried recovery console, ran for twelve hours. Suggested to restart, nothing. Removed the RAM, one dimm at a time, no joy. Took the old hd out and put it in an enclosure, new drive in the laptop and installed clean vista. Then tried to get data from the original drive but it is in RAW format and needs to be formatted. Read many of these threads about crcdisk.sys but none of them apply or work. Primary issue is data recovery. PPPPlllllleeeassse help me. My children and my patients miss me.
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Thanks for your input. I tried the drive with another machine. Same problem. Even though I had the laptop on a coolermaster lqaptop cooler, I did have the machine running for several days. From what you say, I am sure the drive was cooked. Hopefully I can get the data back with one of those services.
Since you have the disk in a USB enclosure try attaching it to a different computer. It if also comes up RAW it confirms that the disk is fubar (not the laptop). If it works on another computer great, recover the data. If it comes up RAW again, there is no good workaround other than paying $$$ to OnTrack or some other data recovery service. Sorry.