Y460p boot problem

Hi everyone,

I'm setting up a brand new Y460p laptop for a friend and I'm running into a lot of problems. The system comes with Windows 7 HP.

Initially, the system runs fine after setting up. But my friend wanted me to create a new partition so I shrunk the main partition using Windows Disk Manager from 660GB to 330GB. I then create a new partition. The problem began when I could not create a new partition. It said that the computer has too many partitions or logical drives and asked me to convert it to a dynamic disk. Funny that I didn't think it had too many. Just 4 when I looked at the drive. Without thinking I clicked to accept. I get an error that the partitions are too small to convert. I'm not sure why because they are gigs in size and most of them are free. Suddenly, all the drive letters disappeared.

When I rebooted the system, I get a message "Disk Error: Press any key to restart." Pressing F5 or F8 does nothing. I could not restore from the restore partition. I tried to repair using the Windows repair disk many times but was unsuccessful. I even try to rebuild the MBR to no avail.

I searched online for solutions to this problem and found some information on how to convert dynamic disks back to basic disks using Partition Wizard. I used another computer and check the disk. It is still a basic disk. I repaired the MBR using Partition Wizard. I then restored the hard drive back on the Y460p and it booted up fine. I set up everything again. I rebooted the system to update some software and get the same "Disk Error: Press any key to restart." message again.

Again, I extract the hard drive and use Partition Wizard to repair the partition. It booted again. I created a set of recovery disks just in case. After another reboot, I get the same dreaded message: "Disk Error..." I thought at this time, I would try to restore from the recovery disks. It took an hour to recovery. After recovery, the system would not boot with the same message, "Disk Error..." Again, Partition Wizard came to the rescue. After another reboot, "Disk Error..." yet again.

I'm about to tear my hairs out. Could this be a hardware issue? I've never had Windows problem after shrinking inumerable drives before. This was the first. It is a brand new laptop too.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations or suggestions. My friend drove two hours to bring me the laptop this morning. He will come back tomorrow to pick it up. I thought it would be an easy fix... I spent the whole day on it.

 

clean windows installation should work for you. if you have recovery dvds, use them or try to start-up your computer by pressing one key recover button to perform clean windows installation.