{"id":3121,"date":"2021-11-02T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=3121"},"modified":"2021-11-02T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T11:07:10","slug":"how-do-i-format-a-hard-drive-with-error-20-fffe-045d","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-8\/how-do-i-format-a-hard-drive-with-error-20fffe045d\/1607.html","title":{"rendered":"How Do I Format A Hard Drive With Error 20-Fffe-045d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I have a Toshiba laptop that had windows vista on it originally. I decided to upgrade to windows 8.1 because it was offered for free through my school. That upgrade took place about a year ago. Six months ago I started getting kernel data in-page error and my laptop shut down at random and most inconvenient moments; such as when I am working on school projects. I ran the widows disk repair utility several times until one day ( 1 week ago) my laptop no longer would boot windows up. So I placed the recovery disk for vista in and attempted to format the hard drive and restore my original os. I received the error 20-fffe-045d only to read now on the blogs that my hard drive is toast. f&#8212; windows 8.1, and on that note f&#8212; MICROSOFT for frying my laptop. Offer a free os to students&#8230; great! Now that s&#8212; hit the fan nobody is liable and I lost my $800 machine. I am now running Linux of a live boot usb because thats all I can do with this piece of garbage. If anyone knows of a way to wipe clean the drive and maybe somehow bypass the damaged sectors I would greatly appreciate the information. Being a student money is scarce&#8230; can&#8217;t afford a new machine or a new hard drive. On a side note, what happened to windows 9?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":8},"question-category":[68],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-8"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}