Solved My laptop won't boot, and I no longer have a DVD drive

[Patagriff98338]

My Gateway laptop won 't boot because "a device is not accessible". I have my three Gateway Recovery DVDs with the Windows 7 operating system on them. However, I no longer have a DVD drive in my laptop, and I am being asked to insert my Windows installation medium and select "repair my computer"

My question is this...can I go to a different computer with a disk drive and creater a USB drive with the necessary startup repair files on it from my Gateway Recovery disks with Windows 7, and if so, how do I make it bootable? Can I just create an ISO image from my Disk 1 and copy it onto the USB drive? Do I need three USB drives, each with the image of one of the three recovery DVD's on it? Can I just put Disk One of the 3 recovery disks on a USB to beable to access the repair my computer part of the Windows Installation files?

I have the Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 on a Sardu Multiboot USB with a bunch of tools on it. Is there something on there that coukd help me?

What started this is I have a second 500 gig HD in a HD caddy that slides into the laptop where the DVD drive was. The second drive was inaccessible because it had a name collision with the primary harddrive because I began the cloning process, which failed but it had already formatted the drive, and c reated the partitions and volumes the same as my primary drive before the cloning failed. So, I used disk management from my Hiren's boot CD to format the second hard drive, and named the volume backup drive. When I went to boot up my laptop, it won 't boot. But, I did not even make any c hanges to my primary hard drive from which my laptop boots.

Can someone please advise what I should do?

 

[Paul Black]

Hi Patagriff98338,

Welcome to SevenForums!

My Gateway laptop won 't boot because "a device is not accessible". I have my three Gateway Recovery DVDs with the Windows 7 operating system on them. However, I no longer have a DVD drive in my laptop, and I am being asked to insert my Windows installation medium and select "repair my computer".

My question is this...can I go to a different computer with a disk drive and creater a USB drive with the necessary startup repair files on it from my Gateway Recovery disks with Windows 7, and if so, how do I make it bootable?

If you have access to another computer you can download the ISO for your OS and create a bootable USB that will give you the startup repair files.

NOTE: The light blue text below are links to the relevant websites and programs, just click them!

Download New ISO

This process will download the latest and last Windows 7 SP1 [Final] ISO [build 6.1.7601 - July 2009] for your version and bit-type.

[1] Create a folder on the desktop to extract the ISO to.
[2] Download Windows ISO Downloader.exe [direct download] to the Desktop and run it.
[3] On the right-hand side of the screen under the Windows tab, select Windows 7.
[4] In the Select edition drop down box, select the Win 7 edition you want an ISO for and click Confirm.
[5] In the Select the product language drop down box, select the language you want the ISO to be and click Confirm.
[6] Under the Downloads section, click the ISO bit-type you want to download and save it to the Desktop.
[7] Extract the ISO into the folder you created in [1] using 7-Zip.

Burn ISO To USB

To burn the ISO to a USB, you can either use Rufus 3.4 or Rufus 3.4 Portable.

I hope this helps!

 

[SIW2]

You can run nt6repair - it is on the desktop of my boot media. Under "FIX OS DRIVE LETTER" select the letter of the non booting windows partition. Click FIX.

17514x86.iso
17514x64-v10.iso

My Gateway laptop won 't boot because "a device is not accessible". I have my three Gateway Recovery DVDs with the Windows 7 operating system on them. However, I no longer have a DVD drive in my laptop, and I am being asked to insert my Windows installation medium and select "repair my computer"

My question is this...can I go to a different computer with a disk drive and creater a USB drive with the necessary startup repair files on it from my Gateway Recovery disks with Windows 7, and if so, how do I make it bootable? Can I just create an ISO image from my Disk 1 and copy it onto the USB drive? Do I need three USB drives, each with the image of one of the three recovery DVD's on it? Can I just put Disk One of the 3 recovery disks on a USB to beable to access the repair my computer part of the Windows Installation files?

I have the Hiren's Boot CD 15.2 on a Sardu Multiboot USB with a bunch of tools on it. Is there something on there that coukd help me?

What started this is I have a second 500 gig HD in a HD caddy that slides into the laptop where the DVD drive was. The second drive was inaccessible because it had a name collision with the primary harddrive because I began the cloning process, which failed but it had already formatted the drive, and c reated the partitions and volumes the same as my primary drive before the cloning failed. So, I used disk management from my Hiren's boot CD to format the second hard drive, and named the volume backup drive. When I went to boot up my laptop, it won 't boot. But, I did not even make any c hanges to my primary hard drive from which my laptop boots.

Can someone please advise what I should do?

 

[Patagriff98338]

Those both sound like viable options.

I do have access to another computer. I'm using it right now. I was hoping such a solution was availasble. Thanks. I will download the ISO and Rufus immediately, and fix it. If it works as I exoect it will, I'll pop back and mark my question as solved.

 

[Patagriff98338]

Alt F10 on power up got me into the Gatreway recovery management and I was able to restore.

 

[Paul Black]

Hi Patagriff98338,

Alt F10 on power up got me into the Gatreway recovery management and I was able to restore.

I am pleased that you have sorted it out. Thanks for sharing the solution, it will help others visiting this thread that have the same problem.