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Boggin:
Will you be changing the HDD yourself ?

Steel430:
If I've got a year or less, then that's certainly long enough to learn how to image the drive and it's just a matter of switching out the HHD's. Or I might check and see what the latest laptops are like and upgrade. Not sure yet.

Boggin:
Scroll down to Method 2 in this article for how to create a system image onto external media -

https://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/8956-system-image-create-windows-8-a.html

This is how I create my system images onto an external HDD.

You will also need to create system repair disk to boot up with to get to the recovery environment to select restore with an image I created earlier, or however Win 8 words it -

https://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2855-system-repair-disc-create-windows-8-a.html

Before your HDD fails, you will need to change the boot order in the BIOS so that it checks the DVD drive before the HDD in order to boot up with the repair disk.

If you get to the stage where the laptop won't boot up, there's a pin hole in the DVD drawer that you can waggle a needle or straightened paper clip which will pop open the drawer.

Insert the repair disk then switch on where you'll be momentarily prompted to press any key to boot from CD/DVD.

Steel430:
Thanks for the info. I think it's coming to the point where I need to take my laptop out to the back and shoot it.

I'd left my computer on when I stepped out and it'd shut down automatically at some point. Turned it back on and the login screen came on but I couldn't type the password for whatever reason and when I tried to restart by clicking on the option in the lower right corner, nothing happened. So I turned the power off & back on and the ASUS screen shows up, then the screen went black. After 5 minutes and nothing happening, I restart the laptop. The ASUS screen comes back with some type on the bottom stating it's going into "Diagnosing the PC", then switches to "Automatic Repair" to fix the disk.

Then I get a screen of options since Automatic Repair didn't fix the issue. Since one was the Command Prompt option, I clicked on that to try Chkdisk /r, which didn't work since it had a system32 prompt, not the admin,. Tried a system restore but there's supposedly no restore points even though I'd created one. I'm trying Automatic Repair one last time before doing a system refresh. I hate to reload all my programs but might have to.

So basically this laptop seems to be farked. :)

Boggin:
When you are in the cmd prompt in that mode you have to direct the chkdsk to the volume.

While it is normally C: - Windows may see it as being in D: so you would first need to enter this cmd -

bcdedit |find "osdevice"

That is a Pipe symbol before find which is the uppercase of \

Assuming that it is C: you would enter chkdsk c: /r

From whatever you get when you have the machine switched on, does CTRL+ALT+DEL get you the option to choose Task Manager ?

If it does, then click on File/Run new task and enter eventvwr - check the box to run the task as an admin - OK

When the Event Viewer opens, ensure Event Viewer (Local) is highlighted in the left pane and when the sections come up, check to see if Critical gives you anything other than an Event ID 41 - that just tells you what you already know and is useless.

If that's all it gives then see what events Errors gives you.

Using Task Manager you can also use it to open a cmd prompt admin by typing cmd.exe in the Run new task box and also checking the box to run new task as an admin.

I don't know if you would be able to enter this cmd from the recovery cmd prompt, but see if you can boot it up into Safe Mode with Networking with these cmds.

At the cmd prompt enter bcdedit

You are looking for the Identifier which can either be {default} or {current}

Then enter bcdedit /set {your identifier} safeboot network

Enter exit to close the cmd window then restart.

Hopefully that will boot you to Safe Mode with Networking but you will need to wire up to get Internet connectivity.

If you can get that far then I want you to download BlueScreenView which will analyze your Memory Dump files to see if it can ID what caused the shutdown.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

If you can get into that mode and a simple Restart doesn't get you back to normal mode, then from a cmd prompt admin enter -

bcdedit /deletevalue {your identifier} safeboot

exit

Then restart, but if the machine will only work in Safe Mode for the moment then, you will need to work in that mode.

If the HDD has further deteriorated then it could have damaged drivers, which BlueScreenView should highlight.

BTW - What are you using to post on ?

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