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Windows 7 not booting

For a few months, I have occasionally experienced the blue screen of death. A simple reboot got me back up and running. After the 5th of 6th time, I decided to look on the internet for some help. Microsoft help site suggested running CHKDSK, so I tried it. Took 2 days to run! Since then, the blue screen has not returned. Things have been good for over a week now. I reboot each morning. Today, after booting up and some programs starting, the computer froze. I rebooted, and got the black screen with something like "Disk failure. Please insert CD". I inserted the Windows CD, booted to Safe Mode, then rebooted to Normal Mode.

I have not tried rebooting without the CD. Wanted to get this message out before I try that.

Two questions:

1) Can anyone offer advise to get to the bottom of this problem?
2) How can I create a thumb drive to boot from so I don't have to dig out the Windows CD which I keep inside the computer.

Thanks for your help.

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rrhandle8

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Got a ST1500DL003-9VT16L ATA Device. Will go to their site.
Any opinion on this hard drive?
If I need to replace it, do you have any suggestions for a good hard drive?

noxcho

From a HDD drives I prefer Hitachi made HGST 500GB drives. But for a laptop I would choose a SSD drive which will give you max out of your laptop. Samsung or Intel SDD drive. Depends on the money you are ready to invest.

rrhandle8

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Thanks for your opinion on hard drives.
I went to Seagate and download some diagnosis tools they make available. All test were successful. I have a strong suspicion the problem is Outlook. It has always been a problem on this pc. Going to create a new profile, and see if that helps.