There is a crappy old AMD pc (1.8'ish ghz single core), which I used in the living room for media purposes (movies etc...) until recently. But after getting a PS3, I rarely used it.
Couple of days ago, when I started it, it gave a missing dll error and didn't boot to OS. I thought a fresh OS install would be nice and painless... After a couple of failed Windows 7 install attempts, drives (not only hdd, dvd drive too) started to not showing up at startup screen (the one with the ram count), but when I enter bios and auto search them, it finds both ide drives easily.
Now, when I try to install Windows 7. It sees the hard drive as 120gb unallocated space, but also saying "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk." I can't make partitions or anything else in it with diskpart, because it's giving CRC error.
Instead of Windows 7, I tried my chances with Ubuntu, so I made a bootable usb drive, but it's also spamming an error (something like: Buffer I/O error on device sda logical block).
Anyone have an idea what can be the source of problems? I suspect it's the HDD or motherboard. Any help would be appreciated.
Couple of days ago, when I started it, it gave a missing dll error and didn't boot to OS. I thought a fresh OS install would be nice and painless... After a couple of failed Windows 7 install attempts, drives (not only hdd, dvd drive too) started to not showing up at startup screen (the one with the ram count), but when I enter bios and auto search them, it finds both ide drives easily.
Now, when I try to install Windows 7. It sees the hard drive as 120gb unallocated space, but also saying "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk." I can't make partitions or anything else in it with diskpart, because it's giving CRC error.
Instead of Windows 7, I tried my chances with Ubuntu, so I made a bootable usb drive, but it's also spamming an error (something like: Buffer I/O error on device sda logical block).
Anyone have an idea what can be the source of problems? I suspect it's the HDD or motherboard. Any help would be appreciated.
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