Help! my asus g1s does not boot anymore

Hey guys,

Last week I started to hear a weird noise from my asus; I checked the fan and it was ok, then tought that maybe it was the HD. I downloaded a software from seagate to check it and it found no problem.
So I used a better software called spinrite to check it. I booted the app from a cd (after changing the boot priority). I stated the test.
After 10 mins I aborded it, after making sure it was ok to do that, because I cound't wait 8 hours without my using my comp today.
I changed the priority back to HD.

Now it always tells me to reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media....

Any idea? Spinrite normaly doesn't erase any data....
I don't know what to do.

 

Try using a linux live CD to see if your files are still there first.

 

Now that's a fast reply.
I will try that as soon that the spinrite test is done.
What do I do exactly?

 

Basically you go to ubuntu.com and download the .iso image, burn it, and boot the CD, and you can open your HDD in it and see the files.

 

What OS is it?

If its Vista, Put in a Vista Disk, and try startup repairing thrugh the disk, and System Restore.

Like this...


If that still doesnt work, (and you see the files with the Ubuntu CD), look at THIS Page, and follow the instructions.

 

My asus didn't come with a vista cd .... only a support CD.
I must buy an other vista cd?

EDIT : I just found an asus recovery CD tho. Will it erase my files if they are still there?

 

Thanks for the answers.

Atm I'm downloading ubuntu to see if my files are still there.

But if they are, since I don't have the vista cd and only a recovery cd, what should I do?
If the drive is empty I guess I'll just run the recovery cd but hell... it will be such a pain in the to lose my stuff

 

Ok so i'm using ubuntu but all I can see there is a drive called SCSI which can't be mounted and something else called filesystem in which I can't find my files...
I guess that mean that my files are erase and my HD is probalby broken, isn't it?

 

I'm kinda talking alone but here's what I found out.
I pugged my HD via usb to a few other pc and while the HD worked nothing happend. Then I tried with a macbook and it tells me that the drive is corrupt.

 

No, so long as you keep it out of the original computer and don't write anything to it. Also, it sounds like the drive was eating itself up, so the more you run it, the more damage it's likely to do to your files.

When you put it into an external enclosure and hooked it up via USB to other PCs, what, precisely, happened? Did the drive fire up at all? Did the computer recognize the drive at all?

 

hey ty for the answer. When I hooked it up via usb to a pc running windows it reconised it but it didn't appear in "my computer". The drive itself does fire and does not make any weird noise at all; it feels ok. When pugging it in a mac it told me that it was corrupt.

Also today tried the asus recovery disk until a giant ERROR msg in red appeared saying : cannot load imagex 0 from SRC wim file. Since then when I try to boot with my HD it's not the same error anymore; it says " BOOT MGR IS MISSING"

It's really confusing; I don't even care of my file so much anymore, I just want my computer to work.

 

If you boot with the recovery disk, you should be able to get the option to repair an existing installation. If you go into that option, you should get a console session that has a command that will let you try to repair the boot files.

Don't despair, all is not lost; in particular, your data files should still be intact.

 

I only have 3 options with the recovery disk : recovery first partition, recover in 2 partitions in a single partition and recover both.

 

Geez, I really hate gimped recovery disks. Ok. If you're feeling adventurous, and don't mind doing some reading and figuring out, I would suggest that you download a copy of the Ultimate BootCD ("UBCD"). UBCD comes with several partition and master boot record tools that should at least allow you to do some basic repairs to your partition structure and your boot records. One thing to always keep in mind, though, is to verify that a tool will work with _Vista before you start using it; otherwise you may permanently scotch your installation. UBCD is freeware.

If that doesn't work for you, there is a for-pay tool that I've used before to repair partition structures and boot records, called Partition Table Doctor from EASEUS. That should do the job if the other options don't.

 

Is there something I can do with a vista dvd from an other computer?

 

If it's a full version of _Vista and not another gimped "recovery" disk, it should be able to do a repair on your existing installation because it should be able to find a valid product key on your existing installation.

 

Ah well I can't find one tho only an other gimped recorery disk from dell and an other from hp.
But I'm making a boot disk with partition table doctor; I'll see if i can make somthing out of it.

Thanks a again for your help

 

Ok so according to PTD my disk is empty . I guess the right thing to do is to rebuild the partition and then try the asus recovery disk again...

 

Well. what you can do is boot into Ubuntu from a LiveCD and backup your files. Another alternative would be to get a copy of a vista installation disc/image (the method is up to you ;-) ) and burn it on another PC, then boot into the installation disc.

 

I already did that, I coudn't see my files with ubuntu. I think my hd is completly erased somehow.

Shyster : I rebuilded the partition using partition doctor in dos and I get the same error as before when I use my asus recovery disk. There's also the same error when I try to boot directly from the drive : bootmgr is missing
I dk what to do now . I don't want to pay for an other vista disk if my drive is broken...

 

I won't let me use the recovery cd because there isn't the recovery partition on the HD...! Any idea???

 

Did Ubuntu give you the error that the drive was not shutdown properly or something like that? You can bypass that, by opening up the Console and typing the exact command the mounting error pop up tells you. That should fix the error allowing you to access the files hopefully.

 

there is no file in my drive; it's completly erased.
The only thing I want to do is to use my asus recovery disk so I can actually use my computer again. But as I said there an error msg when I use it.
A few people in asus forum told me It's because the recovery partition was erased, which makes no sens to me since there should be the same content in the recovery CD. Some others told me it doesn't work because last time asus changed my motherboard to put the 9500m gs, so I need an other recovery cd.
So I guess that leaves me with 2 sucky options: buy an other vista cd for 250$cad or send my asus back which will take 3 weeks.

If anyone has any idea to help I would be gratefull to say the least.

 

If the motherboard change caused your current recovery CD to be invalid, and if ASUS did the change, then I would call up ASUS and ask that they send a replacement recovery CD to replace the one that they rendered invalid when they changed your motherboard - be insistent but polite, and work your way up the management chain (i.e., when someone says "no," ask to speak to her/his supervisor).

It actually makes a lot of sense that such a change would make your original recovery CDs nonfunctional, since your copy of _Vista would have been an OEM royalty version, and therefore the anti-piracy protection would have been in the form of a BIOS-lock that prevents installation of the OS version on the recovery CD on any computer that has a different motherboard and hence a different BIOS.

The bottom line is, you should be able to get a new set of recovery CDs shipped to you ASAP from ASUS, without the need to send your system back in to them - that shouldn't take more than a few days.

 

hey
just use
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
its free and do everything ( recover partitions-repair MBR)

just follow instruction in their site and everything will be ok.
analysis and scan ---- then deep analysis ---- select your drivers and press (p) to be sure of its right driver or not (dir for files)------ choose (*) for primary bootable os driver -------and don't forget to choose other drivers with its correct parameters ------ write and reboat.

now your drivers back and if your OS didn't reboot then use recovery DVD as PPL told you in previous replies.

 

Thx for the suggestion; but it didnt work
Asus just didnt want to send me the cd, it's a real bunch of thief. They wanted me to send back my laptop.

So I decided to download an iso of windows vista home premium and use the key under my laptop. Then I used the diver dvd.
My laptop is fine now.

Thanks for all your answers!