Failed hard drive??

[steveuk87]

Hey guys,

Ive just had a blue screen on my laptop (year old) now it wont boot up except from the boot disk, with a little digging ive seen that the mbr is corrupt except it cant find the hard drive...

does this mean the HDD is dead?

I really need to get onto it prefareably

Thanks

Steve

 

[nathanjrb]

Hey guys,

Ive just had a blue screen on my laptop (year old) now it wont boot up except from the boot disk, with a little digging ive seen that the mbr is corrupt except it cant find the hard drive...

does this mean the HDD is dead?

I really need to get onto it prefareably

Thanks

Steve

Hmmm corrupt doesn't necessarily mean dead! Are you able to run a HDD test in the bios? Usually you would get a SMART error in advance if your HDD was dying. Also, can you hear the HDD spinning at all?

 

[steveuk87]

Hmmm corrupt doesn't necessarily mean dead! Are you able to run a HDD test in the bios? Usually you would get a SMART error in advance if your HDD was dying. Also, can you hear the HDD spinning at all?

Hi NathanJRB, I can hear it trying to read the HDD sounds like the old 56k modem spinning up to be honest, and no its not registering in the BIOS

 

[nathanjrb]

If it sounds like it's spinning and then stopping that's probably not a great sign. Your BIOS should auto detect HDDs though - you haven't changed any settings or anything?

 

[steveuk87]

no i was literally about to send an E-Mail and the whole thing froze, BSOD and then refused to boot up, it was trying to boot from network card....