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    np5165 - keeps rebooting recovery and failing

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by pelotudo, Sep 20, 2011.

  1. pelotudo

    pelotudo Notebook Geek

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    sunday night, surfing the web fine. closed the laptop to put it to sleep. went to work yesterday and didn't use it.

    came home last night, opened it up to start it. the battery was dead so i plugged it in. first bootup and the error screen comes up saying windows didn't load correctly. options are start normally or startup repair.

    either option takes me to a black screen w/ cursor, followed by system recovery options. the hard disk works for about 5 minutes before allowing me to select system recovery options or system restore. no restore point available, and no system found in the dialog box. clicking next anyways brings me to the startup repair/system restore/system image recovery/windows memory diagnostic/command prompt options screen.

    startup repair works forever but doesn't seem to do anything, system restore doesn't show any restore points; nothing. tried booting from windows cd, same results.

    any ideas?
     
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  2. Anthony@MALIBAL

    Anthony@MALIBAL Company Representative

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    Try creating and booting a linux live CD. If that works, then your hard drive may have failed (or has corrupted some sectors). You can also just reinstall Windows and see if you can run check disk from there.
     
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    pelotudo Notebook Geek

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    I was able to get hirems boot cd to load and into winxp lite.

    Chkdisk got to 14% and started replacing files. By 50% I was hitting bad sectors in waves. Called sager and a new one on the way.
     
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    I just saw that you'd posted elsewhere about it and been directed to hiren's bootcd. Sorry for the double posting, but glad to hear it's sorted out. Dead hard drives aren't common, but it's a fairly simple and painless repair (assuming you have a backup).
     
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    Yeah not sure what happened with it. One second it shut down fine, the next it appears 1/2 the drive is inaccessible. No physical damage that I know of (it was in my padded laptop bag and traveled from my living room to passenger seat of work truck and back).

    Any tool specifically you would recommend either in Hirens or to d/l to back up what I can of the drive before swapping?

    EDIT: nvm, just checked the other thread. booting back in to hirens now to try to salvage what is left.
     
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