Dropped my W3V, Won't Boot, HDD Detected in BIOS

Hey guys,

Well I didn't exactly drop the laptop, I kind of banged on the keyboard with my fist (don't ask )... this was while it was on.

Anyways, I have an ASUS W3V, an now when I start to Boot my laptop I can hear the Hard-Drive spin up a bit but then it shows "Disk error, Press any key to restart" I press any key and it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device, or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key", I press a key and the sequence repeats

BUT I can still go into the BIOS and it detects my Hard-Drive and shows some info about it. Right now I don't have a CD Drive installed so it won't boot to that. For boot devices it gives me the option of HDD (PM-FUJITSU MHU2100AT), ATAPI CD-ROM, or Removable Dev. (I'm guessing that's USB?)

So I'm guessing I should try mounting my HDD using an external device onto another computer? I might just buy another HDD and DVD Drive ( anyone know if this ASUS M3N DVD Drive will fit the W3V?)

Just wondering why the BIOS would detect it, but it doesn't boot... I really need to know if this Laptop will be able to be used again soon because if not, I have to buy a new Netbook to use for school!

Thanks for reading this and your help



PS: I could only find this picture of an M3N Dvd drive:



Or even better, will this one fit?

 

Try booting over USB with a USB disk that has a Live Linux version. That will by-pass the HDD and will load Linux. If that goes well, you will have to replace the HDD. (It is very likely that during the crash, the HDD r/w heads might have crashed into the platters.)

 

Yeah, using a usb device to boot is your best bet at this point. And you probably did crash the heads by hitting it. Big oops You'll be super lucky to get anything off of it. Without sending it to a cleanroom facility, of course. And you better have $$$ and valuable data to bother with all that.

In general all slimline optical drives are pretty much standard. Only the bezel is different and that is usually removable/replaceable from your existing one.

 

You probably damaged the hard drive, not much you can do unless you have a $1000-2000 to recover the data with a professional recovery service.

 

Wow thanks for all your quick help, you're much faster than other forums I've been to

I phoned the store about that Samsung SN-S082H/BEBN (Black) Slim Internal EIDE 8x DVD±Writer and he said that most internal optical drives won't be compatible and that I should just buy one from ASUS... not sure how much I believe him. I might just buy it and test to see if it works... if not, I'll return it and pay the 15% restock fee.

I'll be buying a hard-drive as well, hopefully one that runs COOL because my w3v is always so hot.

Does anyone know for sure if you can Boot the W3V from a USB device? It only says Removable Device.

The hard-drive data is definitely not worth saving thankfully

 

I had a similar model (Z70V) and it was able to boot over USB so I am pretty much sure yours can do it as well.

In the opposite case, there is nothing you will lose. Just download a Live Linux to another machine, prepare a bootable USB disk with it and try it. Simple as that...