System Restore breaks my computer please help :I

[EpicLuigi1134]

Ok so i dont know what happened to my hard drive but it went KABOOM!

ok so not it real life but i have a very very old computer. Its one of em hp media center pc's from the 2007 or the 2006. my intel thingy is intel platinum 4. my windows is windows 7 and when i launch the system repair disk it does not sense my hard drive :banghead: and when i dont launch a disk in the computer and i boot it it says "please insert a boot disk or press a key to boot thingy"

whoops i didnt say the prob!

Ok so 3 months ago so i went omn my computer.
DRASTIC LAGG!! so i tried to see whats the problem. I had no malware, cause i had malware byte and mse (just in case). Couldnt see the problem so you know i just cleaned the computer by getting rid of junk files with CrapCleaner. It still didnt solve it so i got gamebooster. that hardly worked at all! so i just did a system restore but here is the acutal problem! so i left it to do the work (cause i had a system image to a earlier point) then uhh i for got what happened since it was a while ago!

so back to the main story! :huh:

i launched system repair thingy and it said i had no hard drive :O

woah so i did the command prompt to do chk dsk :I it worked but had an error. I forgot it but i also did sfc/scannow and the error was there is a system repair pending which requaires boot to complete! Restart windows and try again! WHAT THE POO! i did that. and it still says "please insert a blah blah or presss a key to boot"

so i really need help!!!!!

 

[TVeblen]

Hello EpicLuigi1134. Welcome to the forum.

First, check the cables and connections to the hard drive (computer off please).

Then, boot into the BIOS settings (usually by pressing F2 or DEL during boot).
Take note of the setting for the SATA controller (assuming SATA HDD - if a PATA HDD then ignore this). If it is set on AHCI you will need to reset this in the last step.
Go to the EXIT Tab and choose "Restore Defaults"
Exit and Save and then immediately go back into BIOS SEtting to change the SATA controller back to AHCI (if applicable).

See if that changes anything.

Please fill out System Specs. It is important for us to know what system components we are dealing with.

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

the plugs are all in of course but im trying the thing you said to do right now!


ii did that but nothing changeed

 

[TVeblen]

You can try plugging the drive into another SATA port.

You can try that drive in another computer to see if is recognized there. This will tell us if the problem is with the drive or the PC.

You could also download and burn to CD a hard drive diagnostic program, which you can find on the website of your hard drive manufacturer.

If the drive can not be recognized in another PC and fails to be recognized with the diagnostic tool then it is highly likely it has died.

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

ok ill make it simple

ok for some reason somthing stop system restore
it bricked my hard drive and now it is nolonger detected by window install and other stuff

my hard drive does work its just that the system thingy is preventing to boot win7

 

[TVeblen]

OK, I'll make it simple

When you get that message that says "please insert a boot disk or press a key to boot", that mean the SYSTEM can't find a hard drive with a bootable OS. The system is at the BIOS level, before Windows even starts to load. So forget about anything to do with Windows.

You could have a failed hard drive.
You could have a corrupted boot loader (therefore no bootable OS)
You could have a CD in the optical drive and the optical drive is set as the first boot device.
And more.

You have got to determine what is causing the "can't find a bootable drive thingy" before you can do anything else. That is why I gave you the suggestions I did.

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

darn... failed hard drive..

anyone know where to get a hp media center pc hard drive ?

 

[TVeblen]

Hard drives are generic. Other than SATA connections or PATA connections, and physical size (3.5" vs 2.5"), they are all the same and can be used in any PC, including Apple, Linux, or Sun.

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

but what i really dont understand is that when i do chkdsk is says there is a system repair thing and ill need to restart computer..................

so its detected by chkdsk... does it mean its still a failure?

 

[TVeblen]

No it does not have to be a failed drive.

I have mentioned a few tests for you to perform that will narrow down the problem. If we can determine what the problem is then a more direct solution could be suggested.

Since you have not responded with any results from these tests I can only assume that they all failed.

Or I could just start throwing out random fixes that might work.
For instance: run Startup Repair:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html?ltr=S
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html
See if that works

More information = more help

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

srry for late response!


ok so im trying it right now! ill edit this post when im dome

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

oh that doesnt work :O boo....

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

but the question is, is there a way to stop system restore?

Because stopping it can save my life

 

[TVeblen]

What do you mean?

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

because it was system restore that caused the whole thing. And system restore clearly needs a reboot. But when i try to co-operate

BAM! it does the "please insert a bootable thingy..

FYI i did hard drive boot first in the BIOS

and now the hard drive is unknown local disk thingy so it cant be booted )

 

[TVeblen]

Well I still am not sure exactly what the problem is that we are trying to fix, but I will take your word for it and assume that

• You manually attempted to restore your system to a previous point in time using System Restore from your System Protection settings
• The restore operation went very badly.

In that case try this:

• Boot the computer into BIOS settings and set the DVD drive as the first boot device.
• Put your Windows 7 installation disk, or Windows 7 Repair Disk, in the DVD drive. (If you don't have either of these you will need to make a Repair Disk http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html)
• Boot the computer using the Repair Disk.
• Select: "Repair My Computer"
• Then choose "System Restore"
• Full instructions here: Use Option 2: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/668-system-recovery-options.html

That will re-perform (reboot) the System Restore procedure, provided there is not a different problem.

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

as i said, my systems hard drive is not detected so i cant do startup repair...

already tried... and system restore is not a quiestion because my hard drive is corrupted so its most likely i need to change hard drive

 

[TVeblen]

Did you ever try the hard drive in another computer?
That would be your first step towards recovering files.

 

[EpicLuigi1134]

I figured it out!

Ok so im not so techy and srry for super slow reply,

THe Hard Drive it broken and like a said, im not techy so i cant really do that..

i figured out that the sfc/scannow and chkdsk was talking about the disk! The repair disk.

so really i dont have a working harddrive anymore....

 

[TVeblen]

Sorry to hear that. Are you going to buy a replacement drive?