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    g73jh-a2 HDD died?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Caeadas, Jul 9, 2011.

  1. Caeadas

    Caeadas Newbie

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    This morning, when i turned on my laptop, instead of booting into windows, it booted into a repair utility. Tried system restore, but none of the restore points would work. Tried to run the system repair utility and it sat for a few hours, repairing disk errors. When it finally finished, it said the system could not be repaired. After trying to system restore again, now the computer boots and says "missing operating system"

    If the HDD has died, would it be possible to swap out to an SSD and just start over fresh, using me second drive as normal storage? or is there something worse off that could be wrong w/ the computer? i have all my important stuff backed up to an external drive, and just buying a new drive would be better than mailing it to asus for a month.
     
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  2. Hrogi

    Hrogi Notebook Consultant

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    I would try a new drive first.
    They are cheap or you can buy used for atest....

    Or if you have a SSD already, give it a try.

    Your old drive could be dead.
     
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    Chastity Company Representative

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    Throw in a Win 7 Install CD and see if you can do a Repair Install, or just wipe the C: partition and install a fresh version.

    I don't know if the drive died, but the install may have gotten corrupted. Usually in such a case, I would pop in the Win 7 disc, get to the Command Prompt and try running "fixmbr" and "fixboot" commands. Google for more info.
     
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  4. Tsunade_Hime

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    If you have an external enclosure/USB adapter, hook it up to another computer run chkdsk /r <target drive letter here>
     
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    jakeythesnake Notebook Guru

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  6. Caeadas

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    Unfortunately i don't have a spare HDD at the moment, was thinking about purchasing an SSD and upgrading, if one of the two HDD's in the comp was still good.

    upon further investigation, i found one of my ram sticks was loose. i'm thinking one of the kids may have accidentally knocked the laptop off its table. would a loose ram stick cause disk errors?
     
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    Finally got the laptop back functioning. I made a windows 7 install CD, booted off of it, then used system restore to reload the HDD back to last week. Now to scan the crap out of my memory and drives to make sure they're not busted.

    Thanks everyone for for your advice, i was sure the laptop was dead.
     
    Caeadas, Jul 10, 2011
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