Asus Z71v hard disk failure?!

Hello,

I recieved my laptop only yesterday and assembled it myself due to the company charging loads for just assembling it themsleves. Anyway, they sent me my laptop i assembled it and all and it works right up until i boot it up, it checks the thing in the laptop and says HARD DISK ERROR.

The bios can't even detect the hard disk nor can i install anything on my laptop e.g. windows.

My hard disk is a SATA 60gb 5400rpm Samsung HM060II

Anyone help me?

 

I see that the specification for the Z71V says:

2.5-inch ultra-slim 9.5mm SATA / PATA HDD, capacities of 20/40/60/80GB at 4200/5400/7200 RPM
* SATA achieved thru PATA controller

I suspect that your challenge is to get the SATA HDD to be recognised. Is there a BIOS option?

John

 

I've now managed Linux to install on to the HDD without problems.. somehow i think its windows installing as it gives me a blue screen with an error about partmgr.sys..

Fricking microsoft..

 

No its not windows. Its definitely hardware related. Your hdd is suspect as you may have imagined. The notebook has native support for sata there are no drivers to be installed.

 

Its strange i have seen latops that have definate hareware problems that when running windows freeze every 5 minutes or get errors. But when running linux always work. Doesnt windows seem to be more sensitive to errors?

 

Hdd bad sectors and ram problems for sure.....

 

If you run a full format for that HD, the bad sector may be fixed, also run a memory diagnosis for finding its error.

 

Another thing you could try since your harddrive is already defunct, isssssssssssssss, well just give it a good shake.

I know, sounds like the worst thing you could do, but if your harddrive is DONE, like you think it is, it wouldn't do any harm.

My dad's friend has an old Sony Vaio and he asked me to take a look at it because his harddrive had gone bad. I was going to buy a new harddrive and install it when he called me up and said he fixed it. How I asked and he said he just gave it a good shake becuase he ws pissed off and then it booted up and was fine. LOL. Maybe not totally fine because he said it made a freakin' annoying clicking sound endlessly.

Cheers,
Mike

 

Lol the chances of that being a permanent solution are 1 in 1 billion

 

My friends pc tower stopped working once. He tried the shake method well i should say throw the pc through a second story window method he was sure that would fix it but for some reason it still didnt work.