Boot problem on Acer 5920G

I my Acer 5920G, internal hard drive is dead by bad sectors. I can't boot image from my Transcend external hard drive. Just nothing happens, just blink of short line in left up corner of screen. I did everything fine in BIOS and I also tried Alt+F10 and also nothing. Please help. Is there any chance to do something before I by nnew internal hard.

 

Hi

Slow down a bit.

What OS are you using
What makes you think there are bad sectors
What have you done to try to repair these sectors
If you have a bootable restore disk it should boot even without a HDD (although the bios may bleep and it may report a HDD failure)

Even if the disk has bad sectors if this crept up on you (rather than being the result of a 40m fall down a stairwell) it often works enough when removed and installed on another system via an external USB drive caddy to at least save some of your photos music etc and sometimes to actually repair the bad sectors (although personally I lose trust in it at this stage, retrieve whatever I can at each stage and get a new drive).

So in summary.
Get a replacement HDD and a USB Caddy for a 2.5" SATA HDD on order
When they arrive put your Laptop HDD inthe caddy and see what you can see / save elsewhere using another PC.
Clean install on the new HDD (or recover if you have the DVD images) and put back what you can using the USB drive now plugged back into the laptop. This will let you import mail files, contacts lists and a lot of other stuff quite quickly if they are readable)

 

Thanks for answer!!!
I'm using XP SP3.
I had problem with copying files more and more and then I used HDD inspector that tell me about bad sectors. 3 day after that I saw blue screen and fatal error on it.
I saved my files with O&O disk image (some of them I cannot copy) and than tried to boot backup from external HDD (maybe because of bad BIOS, and that make me very nervous, because I must to finish very important job very quickly)
Thanks for advice anyway!!!
So, I'll bye new HDD.
Thanks again.
PS (maybe there's any acer update bios etc...)

 

Good luck then

From your description it does sound like the priority is to see what can be saved from the HDD as it is rather than trying to 'repair it some more'

Once you have a new HDD in the laptop I would recommend running Memtest
http://www.memtest.org/ to see if the problem was actually caused by bad memory, and if ok run chkdsk or similar from a bootable startup disk to try to make sure the Disk controller is ok. If all ok then off you go again.

It may be a bios problem . . but unless you recently updated it or something the chances are it is not the BIOS