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PC – ACER Aspire 5536G
OS – Vista Home Premium
OK this is what happened to me. I downloaded Avast 5 two days ago. Uninstalled 4 then installed 5. Everything worked ok till I started Google Chrome. As soon as I clicked the chrome shortcut I got the blue screen of death and I mean death.
Restarting the computer it tried to boot from the third boot device which is network. It was telling me no cable is plugged in. Could not find the hard disc.
I used my Ultimate boot disc to start the pc and it did not find the hard disc either. Starting to panic I put in the recovery disc in and tried to install the operating system only saving my files. Still no hard disc was found.
I got a hold of Vista ultimate and tried a repair, this time the hard disc was found but could not boot the system. All I got was a flashing curser and no hard disc activity.
Ran Ultimate Boot Disc and this time it found my disc and I was able to copy my files to an external drive.
Then I ran my recovery discs and tried a full recovery, still no boot.
Next I used the Vista disc and did a complete install and the pc booted up. Noticed that while it was installing it did a repair on the hard disc. I then put the recovery disc in and got the pc back to factory default. Now all works fine.
What I would like to know is why did Avast and chrome kill my hard disc and has anybody else have this happen to them.
Alex