ptop won't boot to windows anymore

Hi

The symptoms, error message Status: 0xc000000f , BSOD 0xF4 etc are pointing to a possibly failing HDD. If there is any important data on the system,please immediately stop any repairing attempt - you may make the issue worse.


What is the exact make and model of your laptop ?.

Thanks for the response. Im using Laplink DIsk Image now to make clone disk of my harddrive onto an external USB WD Drive. Using that to backup all my data, drive incase this harddrive does go bad and wont be able to use it

Laptop is MSI GT60 with windows 7 professional 64 bit installed

That is the right think to do in the first place. A hard drive by it's electro-mechanical nature can fail at any time. A regular backup will keep unnecessary data recovery expenses away.

Once you finished the cloning, please follow the below steps.

1. Download "Parted Magic" from Download Parted Magic - MajorGeeks


2.Burn the disc and boot from it. At the first boot option screen, chose the default option "Default Settings ( Run from RAM )".




3. Wait until desktop appears. Then open "Disk Health" ( GsmartControl) and choose your HDD for testing.






4. Navigate to the "Performs Test" tab and select "Short Self Test" and press "Execute" button.




5. If the test is a pass, select "Extended Self Test" and execute it. This will take some time to complete. After the test finishes, go to "Self Test Log" tab and choose "Save As" button and save the report.

6. Navigate to the "Attributes" tab to list SMART log and choose "Save As" button to save the report as a text file.


7. Upload both "Self Test" log file and SMART log file with next reply. If you are using Ethernet based broadband,internet will work out of box on "Parted Magic". Open "Firefox" from desktop and log in to the "Sevenforum". Otherwise, just copy the files to a USB flash disk and then upload them using another PC.

Thanks but before i try that i noticed some weird things.. should i still do what you asked?



Couple of things i've tried
I even tried this software to automatic repair windows 7

EasyRe Professional For Windows 7
https://neosmart.net/EasyRE/

burned the iso and it booted up the cd, selected automatic repair and said completed but still now i just get the blue screen of death, no black screen

2) I tried the commands
bootrec /fixMBR
bootrec /fixBoot
bootrec /rebuildBCD

only fixMBR says completed. the other 2 says element not found








Before on windows 7 install disk on system recovery options it showed my operating system, but i guess after i did those commands fixmbr, now it no longer shows up

My assumption of HDD being bad is based on the symptoms you described. I could be wrong but when we repair computers, testing and verifying the health of hardware components is the first step to do. Yes, please proceed to the hard disk testing steps. If your HDD is fine, we can start looking for possible software issues.

Btw, "EasyRE" seems to did something wrong.

Hey anshad before i do the hard drive test you mentioned. I have a laptop it's a SSD (solid state drive). not a regular hard drive.

Is it fine and safe to still do what you recommended on testing?

I have a laptop it's a SSD (solid state drive). not a regular hard drive.

SMART self test is a mandatory feature as per ATA specification. Yes, all solid state drives supports self tests but hardware failure issues are less likely to detect when compared to a mechanical HDD. What is the make and model of your SSD ?.

crucial m4 SSD

512GB Crucial C400 Solid State Drive (Up to Sequential Read 415MB/s - Write 260MB/s SSD Serial-ATA III) (SKU - X5R408

exactly what i have