| Windows 7: startup repair loop, root cause: no hard drive detected |
11 Nov 2012
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#1 | | windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
startup repair loop, root cause: no hard drive detected My pc is a stock Asus G53SX-A1, no hardware changes. Yet it says the reason I got a blue screen was due to hardware changes. My computer froze and rebooted during a video game. So I have been experiencing the classic startup repair loop and I tried everything I could find on google without progress. When I try to the option to fix the problem automatically it says it wasn't able to help and tells me the root cause is because there is no hard drive detected, and that if a hard drive is installed it is not responding. I can't detect in command prompt, but somehow I can see contents of it through BIOS so its really odd. When I tried to reinstall windows it says it can't find a hard drive to install on and I need to insert a drivers disk so I can set up the hard drive to continue. So I put in my Asus drivers disk and yet it tells me there's no drivers detected. I looked at the Asus website and all the downloads they have available are the same as on that same drivers disk it said it couldn't find drivers on. So right now my main problem is my pc doesn't detect that I have a hard drive at all even though I do, the same one the pc came with. This laptop has worked fine for almost a year and this issue just came out of nowhere, so any ideas as to why my HD would suddenly disappear in my computers eyes? I even moved the HD to the secondary slot to see if maybe the primary slot had gone bad since I had an issue once with my desktop that was fixed by moving my RAM stick to a different slot so I figured I would try, I will try anything at this point. Thanks for reading. | My System Specs |
| OS windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
11 Nov 2012
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#2 | | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 |
What must have happened when your computer locked up is that the OS lost the ability to write to the hard drive while in the middle of writing to it, which compromised the safety protocols and damaged the MBR or other system file that has compromised the operating system.
You have access to a working computer in order to make this post. I would attach your Asus G53SX-A1 hard drive to this one as a secondary device and run some disk utilities on it. Try a chkdsk repair or better yet, use a feature rich 3rd party diagnostic tool. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Pavillion dv5t OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 CPU Intel Core2 Duo T9400 2.53GHz Motherboard Intel Memory 4Gb Graphics Card nVidia GeForce 9600M GT 512Mb Sound Card IDT Screen Resolution 1280x800x80 Mouse Microsoft 4000 Hard Drives Seagate Momentus XT 500Gb
Hitachi Travelstar HTS543225L9A300 250Gb |
11 Nov 2012
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#3 | | windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
Posted this via Android, but I do have a working desktop, how would I connect a laptop HD to a desktop? I'm traditionally a desktop user so I'm unaware of laptop hardware abilities if this is possible. | My System Specs | | OS windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
11 Nov 2012
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#4 | | Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 Toronto, ON, Canada |
Well, do you have anything on your hard drive that you need?
Maybe you might recover the stuff by connecting it to another computer, and then DBAN it?
I don't know, I'm not an expert here, just making suggestions. | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number Hewlett-Packard Pavilion g6 Notebook PC OS Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU AMD Phenom(tm) II P960 Quad-Core Processor Motherboard Hewlett-Packard 1697 Memory 4GB DIMM 1066Mhz Micron Technology, 2GB DIMM 1066Mhz Ramaxel Graphics Card AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Sound Card AMD HDMI Output Monitor(s) Displays Philips 40PFL4707/F7 40" LED TV Screen Resolution 1680x1050 Keyboard Dell SK-8115 Mouse Logitech M325, Synaptics TouchPad Hard Drives Hitachi HTS547575A9E384 SATA Disk Device (698.64GB) Internet Speed Rogers Express (25Mbps Down, 2Mbps Up) Other Info Optical Drive: HP CDDVDW TS-L633R
Network Interfaces: Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller, Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
BIOS: Default System BIOS |
11 Nov 2012
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#5 | | windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
I do have personal stuff like photos and such but at this point I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get my computer working again. What do I have to do for it to allow me to reinstall windows? I can access the hd from my desktop through command prompt, just need to know where to go from there. Do I format, clean, idk. Just want to reset it so I can reinstall windows | My System Specs | | OS windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
11 Nov 2012
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#6 | | Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 Toronto, ON, Canada |
Can you boot from another device? E.g. a Windows repair disc/USB?
If you can, use Command Prompt and use the command Code: dir [drive letter]:\ | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number Hewlett-Packard Pavilion g6 Notebook PC OS Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU AMD Phenom(tm) II P960 Quad-Core Processor Motherboard Hewlett-Packard 1697 Memory 4GB DIMM 1066Mhz Micron Technology, 2GB DIMM 1066Mhz Ramaxel Graphics Card AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 Sound Card AMD HDMI Output Monitor(s) Displays Philips 40PFL4707/F7 40" LED TV Screen Resolution 1680x1050 Keyboard Dell SK-8115 Mouse Logitech M325, Synaptics TouchPad Hard Drives Hitachi HTS547575A9E384 SATA Disk Device (698.64GB) Internet Speed Rogers Express (25Mbps Down, 2Mbps Up) Other Info Optical Drive: HP CDDVDW TS-L633R
Network Interfaces: Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller, Ralink RT5390 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
BIOS: Default System BIOS |
11 Nov 2012
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#7 | | windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
| My System Specs | | OS windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
11 Nov 2012
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#9 | | Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1 x 2 Australia |

Quote: Originally Posted by PFCelliott No I can't I don't doubt you but this is odd.
You have a DVD drive plus a couple of USB2 ports?
Can't you go into the BIOS and set either of these as the boot device? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Own build (+ Recased Acer Aspire x1800) OS Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1 x 2 CPU Intel i7 2600k Motherboard ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe Memory G.Skill Ripjaws (DDR3-1600) 2x4GB Graphics Card Nvidia GeForce GTS 450; Intel HD Graphics 3000(GT2+) Monitor(s) Displays Dell Ultrasharp IPS panel U2311H, Samsung SyncMaster P2350 Screen Resolution 1920x1080 Keyboard Logitech MK520 (wireless) Mouse Logitech MK520 PSU Seasonic M12II 520W Case Lian Li Lancool PC-K60 Cooling Case: 1x120mm, 3x140mm CPU: Hyper 212+ Hard Drives Crucial M4 128GB (000F), Seagates 1TB Barracuda ST31000528AS + Internet Speed 6-7 Mbps Antivirus Norton NIS, Malwarebytes on 2 (MSE on 3rd PC) Browser FireFox Other Info Audio: Logitech Z523 2.1 |
11 Nov 2012
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#10 | | windows 7 home premium 64 bit |
Here's where I'm at: initially, the HD showed in BIOS but not when I tried to reinstall windows. So I went into command prompt diskpart and found the disk there, I read on other threads similar to mine to do "clean" and then create a new partition so I cleaned it and after that it came up when reinstalling windows and said disk 0 unallocated space, when I tried to proceed it said it couldn't install on the drive, so I hit "new" and after waiting a while an error message said it was not able to create a new partition on the selected unallocated space. When I try to manually create a new partition in diskpart I get error messages, same for volumes. Sometimes the drive doesn't even show up at all, but when it does I can't do anything with it other than "detail disk" and see that its free space with no volumes. I tried resetting BIOS because in one of the error messages it said to make sure the drivers controller was enabled and it shows fine in BIOS. I get nothing but error messages when attempting to create new partitions, volumes, or convert it. When I connect the drive to my desktop and attempt these things it says the action is not allowed on this version of windows even though it is the exact same version of windows 7. Totally lost now. | My System Specs | | OS windows 7 home premium 64 bit startup repair loop, root cause: no hard drive detected problems? All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:10 AM. | |