Red Shimmering Display with Toshiba Portege S100

Hello there,
after doing some partitioning with partition magic I came back to find that it had been unable to boot into windows and now had a red screen.
Rebooting I could get into windows however now parts of the screen has a red display (usually in black or blue bits of the display).
I've tired system restore, uninstalling and reinstalling display drivers and also updating the BIOS. I've also tried various linux live CD distributions but they also have a red tinge and some shimmering.
I don't have an external monitor to hook my laptop up to but I suspect it is more a corrupted hard drive issue than anything else. Does anyone have any ideas outside a complete wipe + reinstallation of windows?

Hi there,
so, if you suspect the harddrive then why dont exchange it and give it a try?? I think maybe something of your graphics subsystem like vga-chip or lcd could be faulty, but thats just my opinion. :)
If you really try to change the harddrive and you got no success, then I suggest you to contact a local servicepartner for an hardwarecheckup or maybe a repair. Are you still in warranty?
Greets

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