Freezes on boot and during chkdsk

[j1dopeman]

Hi, and thanks for reading my post.

I installed a bunch of critical updates a few days ago (not wga), and
when I restarted as a result of them my computer just hung at the boot
screen. I shut it down and booted in safe mode, but a few seconds
after I logged in I got a blue screen of death which I couldn't read
because it restarted so quickly. I booted again, this time into safe
mode with the command prompt and turned off the auto-restart. I tried
running system file checker but it said my rpc service wasn't running,
even though I looked and it said that it was running, so I began a
chkdsk. The chkdsk froze at 32%, and so I restarted again into safe
with command. I told the chkdsk to run and auto-fix on the next boot.
It restarted a couple of times and now it freezes before it gets into
any safe modes or regular windows, although it gets past loading all
the drivers (that it prints). I booted with an xp sp2 cd and ran the
recovery console and tried chkdsk, which now freezes at 8%, when run
with either /p or /r. If I run it normally it says that the disk looks
fine but doesn't scan anything.

Is it time to reinstall windows, or are there other things that I
could/should try? I don't have access to a cd burner, but I do have
access to a floppy since I am currently running an old laptop with
linux. Any help is appreciated. To reinstall windows, do I just
proceed with a normal install, or is there a specific reinstall option
somewhere?

 

[j1dopeman]

Great, I can't even boot on a repair install. It finishes deleting and
copying new files, and then it reboots and lets me know that a chkdsk
is scheduled. If I let it run then it freezes at 32% again, and if I
skip it then it just says it's been cancelled, 7 dots come up, and it
freezes. If my disk is really shot, wouldn't it just not be
recognized? Or wouldn't errors come up when the xp cd is copying and
removing files from it?

 

[j1dopeman]

It's definitely a hard drive problem, but not like anything I've seen
before. I installed windows onto another hdd that I have, and booted
from that. I was able to view the broken one and copy all my personal
files off of it. I had no trouble viewing or copying anything. I did
see a few error messages saying 'Windows Delayed Write Failed' which
indicated that windows couldn't write to this drive. I ran the chkdsk
and at 32% it paused and began displaying:
File Record Segment at 31616 could not be read
etc.
it continued for almost 2 days and I finally killed at like 70xxx. I
tried switching the sata cables and slot but I ran into the same boot
errors. Has anyone heard of a problem where you can read from a drive
but not write to it?