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Harddrive Problem - Help!
Was given a laptop off a friend awhile back, he said he kept getting a blue screen error off it, so never used it. I decided to get around to looking at it last night, and yes it does boot into a blue screen error, after loading the Windows 7 start up after BIOS. The error is “Unmountable Boot Volume” ........
I thought ahh well, i'll just reinstall Windows and have rid of it, but it just sticks on the setup page, with the blue circle going round and round, i left it for a few hours but still came back to the same thing. I did a Google search, as you do before asking for help and followed some tips, but they didnt help me. Those were putting the recovery disc in, selecting the repair my pc, and entering a few command promts like 'Chkdsk d: r/' but got nowhere, one command similar to the one i just typed seemed to do something, it was going through files and repairing them, i thought i was onto a winner but it seemed to freeze after about 6 long hours, so gave up.
Ive tried the hard drive in other laptops, and have the same problem with it, but as its booting in some way, instead of displaying things like 'No OS installed' or 'No Bootmanager' i believe the hard drive isnt fried?. I have never had this kinda problem before, no matter what disc i put in to try and reformat the hard drive, it just sticks on setup, or goes back to the blue screen error. Am i fighting a losing battle here trying to save the hard drive, or should i just buy a new one?.
Usually if a hard drive doesnt show in the BIOS, i destroy it and toss it away, but it is showing as registered, so i believe something could be done?. Is there a free boot disc program i could use to reformat the hard drive that way? any help and advice would be great, dont think it matters here but im using Windows 7 & the laptop is an Advent Modena Blue..