 burner50Helping Darwin WINPremium,VIP
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| [hard drive] Black screen on Boot Toshiba 2.5" HDD
Laptop battery died, Plugged it in later, hit the power button.
Everything looks fine until I should get the "Starting Windows" screen.
It is just a black screen with a flashing cursor, but the cursor flashes irregularly.
I went into the BIOS settings and ran a couple tests. The HDD failed the test.
I took the hdd out and put it in a portable enclousure then hooked it up to another Windows 7 computer.
It comes up with two drives, "System Reserved" which is 100MB, and another "Local Disk". It says I need to format the disk in drive E before I can use it.
*I Do not want to format this drive. I can hear it power up and spin, and there is a flashing activity light on the portable enclosure.
Any ideas?
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 psafuxPremium,VIP
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kudos:2 | Run a data recovery program to get your data off that drive and replace the drive.
Get Data Back offers a free trial where you can see the data before you purchase the application.
There are countless other programs available. |
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burner50Helping Darwin WINPremium,VIP
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pluggedI plugged it into a linux box I had up in the attic... it can read it no problem...
Not sure why windows all of a sudden cant.
I have a brand new HDD for it already... But can't find my windows install media.
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psafuxPremium,VIP
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kudos:2 | reply to burner50
if you have the license key, you can find the installer from a variety of methods.
Glad the linux trick worked, I hadn't thought of that though I have done that in the past as well.
It has to do with how the partition is interpreted by Windows. The master boot record (likely) or another necessary file on the hard drive is unreadable and the OS interprets it as being unformatted.
Linux doesn't look for the same thing and thus doesn't have the restrictions. |
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