Disappearing drivers on fresh windows 7 install

kruxpavilion

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Feb 11, 2014
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Hey all

I've ran into a really disturbing issue that seems to be plaguing this used laptop I got from a friend. It's an HP HDX18-1180ca. When I first received it, it had vista installed on it. I had very quickly decided to replace it with Windows 7.

Everything went great. Microsoft was updating my system nearly almost every time it booted. I downloaded the Nvidia driver for the graphics card. I also downloaded keyboard, touch pad, and other peripheral drivers.

Okay so around the 6th reboot mark, every time I reinstall windows, I get a fatal dll missing error. There is no way I could have any malware on it, and it seems too convenient that it happenes every time I try to reinstall windows..

So I suspected perhaps the harddrive was corrupted. I ran a disk check through safe mode with command prompt. I also verified the integrity of the system32 files... And it confirm what I thought, I had corrupted files that could not be recovered. Disk check found around 8 unreadable sectors.

Now windows won't start up at all. I get to the desktop basically nothing responds. It's as if it's trying to find files that aren't there.

So I'd like to ask the community here since I honestly can't figure out what I should do. Is something like this pointing towards a hdd error? Or is this a ram/processor failure? I would give specific errors but the computer doesn't display them long enough for me to copy them down. Should I replace the harddrive?

Any feedback would be amazing.

Thanks :)

Edit: I had an old laptop hdd. As suggested by the best answer I tried the new hard drive. Seems to be booting without any errors so far. Awesome.
 
Solution
bad sectors = bad hard drive, get a new one and reinstall windows again.
umm or if you can get access to command prompt, like in windows recovery mode/environment, or through a boot environment like Hiren's (google it), type:
chkdsk c: /f