I recently had a virus on my computer and did a dull on system recovery. I had a hard disk image at one point, but the external drive it was on has been replaced and i had planned to “make a new one later.” When I first purchased it, i was using it exclusively for music production\/recording. I haven’t done much music-wise over the last year, and have been focused on going back to school. I’m double majoring in applied mathematics and physics, so this computer has slowly evolved from a production powerhouse into the most computationally advanced graphing calculator I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n
I’d SLOWLY been reinstalling the music software that i rely on most often, but was planning on creating the disk image “once I’d completely installed everything…” you know…. So i never had to do this again…<\/p>\n
Well, i turned my computer on the other day, and it gave me a DOS-like screen that basically said my hard drive’s failure was imminent, press any key to boot… I press a key, and it gives me a similar screen that just says that the master record boot failed or something of that nature. It says to press any key, but it does nothing.<\/p>\n
I’m no moron, but im not the most computer-savvy guy when it comes to opening the box up. I know I’ve got to replace this drive. It was a (i believe 7200) 1TB SATA drive. I’m guessing that it’ll cost me roughly $100 if i don’t buy cheap and want to get something better than i had. I have my software and files all backed up on external drives… But not Windows. When i replace this drive, will i need to purchase a new version of Windows 7, since i don’t have ANY back up of it whatsoever?<\/p>\n
Also, if there is any way that anyone knows if to fix this via the start up BIOS screen, so that i can attempt to make a system image, I’m all ears the as well.<\/p>\n
Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":20},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/5424","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=5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}