[shortguy014]

Hey TSGF,

I recently, as of about 3 weeks ago decided to dual boot my computer with Windows 7 (x64). I play quite a lot of games on my system, and rumours were out that Windows 7 boosted fps slightly. I got a terrible framerate in Vista, even when I killed all of the background processes.

All has been fine up until yesterday, and to believe or not, its about my Vista system. I dual booted it and have rarely used windows vista for anything, simply for word, as I didn't wish to use another of my 3 allowed installations using my registration key.

My steam program crashed, so I completely restarted - to give the computer a nice fresh start. I hate continuing on from a large crash. I started up my Windows Vista installation, just to check how everything was going. Check my hard drive.. etc.. It was fine - it was late, i went to bed.

I woke up this morning, to notice my computer was 'asleep' in my 7 system. Strange, I left it on vista last night. Oh well. Shut down, boot into vista. And there it was. It said it didn't start up properly last time and it was recommended I do a start up repair. This was why I was in 7 a few minutes ago. Sure, let the startup repair go. I went to eat some chips - It was still loading. Those green bars going from left to right, with an occasional purr of the computer - hoping it would do something.

No Sweat. Ill just boot into the normal system. Same thing happened again. Next step towards recovery - Safe mode. I got that dreaded crcdisk.sys hang, and it didn't show any progress. Okay - I've still got my vista recovery CD, lets give it a whirl. I booted up into CD, let the windows files load and then it started loading. SAME AS BEFORE??!!! It was showing its beautiful over-sized loading bar. Oh god. i've read about this. What to do?

I read around, and most people suppose this issue is a hardware issue. Normally linked with the HDD. Then how am I sitting on my Windows 7 OS writing this 100% fine? It doesn't make sense.. Anyones opinions or help?

All the best, Michael.

HOLY S*** WTF. Okay, I was just adding the tags now. And now my computer is making a weird clicking noise - like the fan is hitting something. Maybe it is hardware? Any ideas?

EDIT: It stopped clicking about 20 seconds after I wrote it. Hmm? There was a bug flying around my screen and i swatted it. Maybe I hit my computer too hard.

[replay]

sound like this
if so your harddrive is on its way out

[shortguy014]

I believe it might be a HDD problem now - Windows 7 takes about 25 minutes to load (A.K.A being able to click something). It now does the clicking sound occasionally.