MEGA-Laptop issue!

JakeG92

JakeG92

JakeG92

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Okay so a few days ago, my Asus N55SF-S2342V was crashing while trying to export from Audacity. So I turned the laptop off, but when I turned it back on, I received a message saying, "A disk read error occured. Press alt+ctrl+del to restart." Do so, would only loop the laptop back to the same message.

I couldn't boot into any of the 3 safe modes... all I got were black screens and a cursor and sometimes a command prompt while did nothing.

So I grabbed my 6 Asus Recovery disks and let them do their thing which took just over an hour to complete. This is the strange part.

I come to the Asus Preload Wizard which asks me if I want to Recover Windows to the first Partition, to the entire Hard drive, or with 2 patitions. No matter which one I pick, it always fails. Various command prompts appear and when DiskPart.exe appears, it hangs on 0% for a little while and then displays the message, "DiskPart has encountered an error: The parameter is incorrect. See the System Event Log for more information."

Is my hard drive broken? Do I need a new one? Or is there something incredibly obvious that I'm missing?

Please reply ASAP!

Cheers, Jake!
 
Google and download Seatools for DOS

Create a bootable CD. Run the long test.

Be prepared to see your hard drive is fubared messages :(
 
Stormster said:
Google and download Seatools for DOS

Create a bootable CD. Run the long test.

Be prepared to see your hard drive is fubared messages :(
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All I get is this :(
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CEUOTC said:
Time for an SSD upgrade fella :D

Regards.

C
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Could I just buy a new 2.5" SATA Drive, stick it in the laptop and Install Windows... an easy fix?
 
You could take the drives out and see what they look like on a desktop (if you have one available). Being able to get into an OS will give you a lot more tools for recovery.
 
Mercutio said:
You could take the drives out and see what they look like on a desktop (if you have one available). Being able to get into an OS will give you a lot more tools for recovery.
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I have an external enclosure for an Internal Drive... would that work?
Tried that a few day's ago but say's I need to format before viewing the drive... reluctant to then because of all my stuff, but I can probably easily recover it later...

Good idea or....?
 
You will need to go into your BIOS and set the HDD controller mode to IDE or legacy to get Seatools to find the drives. You probably have it set to RAID or AHCI.
 
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