Laptop wont boot

robfosters · 18 Mar 2013 at 20:39

Pulling my hair out here.

Laptop wont boot, just hangs at windows screen. System recovery does not work and when I boot from disk, startup repair just hangs.

When I go into command prompt and list directories, there is nothing there. no windows directories or anything. It's as if the PC's wiped itself!

Any ideas?

Leprechaun312 · 19 Mar 2013 at 11:54

is there any restore features on your laptop i know my acer laptop did have a built in restore partition tht would allow me to reset my laptop back to the way it was when i bought it

solado · 19 Mar 2013 at 11:55

Hard drive failure? If thing's have just gone walkies and repair isn't working then this could be a possibility.

Try run a CHKDSK /R from the repair screen.

Failing that doesn't work (you cant get access to command prompt on the laptop), Maybe connect the drive to another machine and do a CHKDSK /R that way? See if it throws up any errors.

d_brennen · 19 Mar 2013 at 11:55

Plug the drive into another computer and check it out with diagnostic tools. Sounds like a duff drive if I had to guess

robfosters · 19 Mar 2013 at 20:33

It was a hard drive failure. Thanks all.