One night I left my laptop (MSI GT70 0NE) on and woke up to find it powered off. I switched it on and found it kept going into a repair mode where there's just a black screen and a circle. It keeps doing that then ends up getting the windows 8 bsod saying it must be restarted. From looking online it seems this is quite a common issue and generally can mean either a failed hard drive or windows reinstall required. I put windows 8 on a pen drive to see if I could get anywhere and after loads of attempts it finally booted into a windows 8 reinstall. From there I was able to launch CMD and did a list volume in diskpart. This is what I get:
Volume 0 E DVD Rom
Volume 1 C Data NTFS 680GB
Volume 2 BIOS_Buy NTFS 18GB
Volume 3 D IRM_CCSA_X6 NTFS 29GB
I have tried going to Refresh your PC but it says 'the drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again. If I go to Reset your PC it says Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing.
I'm not really sure where to go from here. Should I just get a new SSD and load windows onto that? I can't get into any diagnostics but it looks to me like this is a hard drive failure?
Part of my problem is I'm pretty clueless with how SSD's are setup.
This is the spec:
Marketing Name
GT70 0NE
CPU
Core i7-3630QM
RAM
4GB*4
HDD
750GB 7200RPM+64GB*2 SSD mSA
LCD
17.3,FHD
ODD
BD Writer
VGA
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M,GDDR5 4GB
WLAN
802.11B/G/N+BT
OS
Windows 8
Volume 0 E DVD Rom
Volume 1 C Data NTFS 680GB
Volume 2 BIOS_Buy NTFS 18GB
Volume 3 D IRM_CCSA_X6 NTFS 29GB
I have tried going to Refresh your PC but it says 'the drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again. If I go to Reset your PC it says Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing.
I'm not really sure where to go from here. Should I just get a new SSD and load windows onto that? I can't get into any diagnostics but it looks to me like this is a hard drive failure?
Part of my problem is I'm pretty clueless with how SSD's are setup.
This is the spec:
Marketing Name
GT70 0NE
CPU
Core i7-3630QM
RAM
4GB*4
HDD
750GB 7200RPM+64GB*2 SSD mSA
LCD
17.3,FHD
ODD
BD Writer
VGA
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M,GDDR5 4GB
WLAN
802.11B/G/N+BT
OS
Windows 8