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Originally Posted by V
when my laptop got the blue screen of death, I assumed it was the hard drive. I got a hard drive dock and hooked it up to my other computer as a slave drive. I could access all my old files and stuff so it seemed my issue was just in the OS. I copied over any files I still wanted or needed and then did a complete windows restore to its "as new" setup. worked fine after that. Apparently it was a virus in the boot sector.
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Often times the first thing to go when a harddrive is on its way out is the boot sector/ capability. My friends computer had a harddrive on its way out that I was able to install in another computer as a slave and backup his files.
Assuming its the harddrive is bad diagnostic practice to be honest but in this case does sound like its your issue. Western Digital has a downloadable utility to test your drive. Another good tool is called memtest. You make a boot CD and it will check your memory w/o booting windows or anything. This is a more common tool for blue screens and random crashes though. Most always reoccurring boot issues can be traced to the harddrive either having corrupted data or going bad.
CMOS batteries would never cause that issue. Only thing a bad CMOS battery would do is make the bios default and it would act "recognize" new hardware everytime you booted the computer.