• Getting error 0xc00000e9 on boot
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My laptop crashed earlier on, I figured it was because I had quite a few things open at the same time, and it isn't very powerful. It had basically ground to a halt, and wouldn't bring up the ctrl+alt+del screen for some reason, I can't remember why. Anyway, after it had finished freezing, I saved and closed everything, and turned my computer off and then back on again. This is what I was greeted with when I booted up; [quote=laptop]Windows has has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer. This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an external USB drive while the device is in use, or by faulty hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. Make sure any removable storage is properly connected and then restart your computer. If you continue to receive this error message, contact the hardware manufacturer. Status: 0xc00000e9 Info: An unexpected I/O error has occurred.[/quote] I proceeded to remove everything I had plugged in and boot in repair mode, but it failed and I was sent back to the same screen. I tried plugging everything back in, but still the same thing. I did a quick look around google as well, I tried to boot in safe mode, but again failure. Someone else said that it was due to a virus that changed your harddrive type or something, so I changed the type thing, but that didn't help either. The virus thing seemed kinda believable, I installed some software today (3dsmax and gamemaker I assume were clean) but I also ran this .exe for ripping textures from psx games. I'm really hoping that it isn't my harddrive dying, or if it is, that I can actually get everything off of it before it completely dies, I have a lot of music that I've written that only exists on that harddrive. I haven't tried doing a "boot from last working settings" or whatever, but I will tomorrow when I get up. Any help/advice/"I had this, you fix it by X" would be much appreciated, because I really want to get my laptop working again as soon as possible.
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