I have a laptop I'm trying to fix for a friend that won't boot up. It simply hangs at start-up right after the BIOS screen with a blinking key curser (the Windows screen never shows up).
The hard drive doesn't appear to have crashed, I was able to connect the hard drive to my PC and access all of the data from Safemode in order to save the data, but I'm hoping I can repair the drive without doing a full re-installation of Vista, (which is my last resort option). This is NOT an SSD drive, just a regular Western Digital 160GB drive.
When I start the laptop with the original Windows Vista installation disk and go to repair it says there are no errors with the hard drive, but it still will not boot and hangs at start-up.
I'm hoping some of you have some ideas I can use to try to save the drive without having to do a complete new install of Windows. As I mentioned I can access the hard drive from my PC in Safemode, and the laptop can see the hard drive partition when I run the repair programs from the installation disk, but after rebooting it just acts like it can't see the drive. My best guess is that some start-up files got corrupted so I'm hoping there is something else I can do to try to save the drive before re-installing.
Any ideas?
The hard drive doesn't appear to have crashed, I was able to connect the hard drive to my PC and access all of the data from Safemode in order to save the data, but I'm hoping I can repair the drive without doing a full re-installation of Vista, (which is my last resort option). This is NOT an SSD drive, just a regular Western Digital 160GB drive.
When I start the laptop with the original Windows Vista installation disk and go to repair it says there are no errors with the hard drive, but it still will not boot and hangs at start-up.
I'm hoping some of you have some ideas I can use to try to save the drive without having to do a complete new install of Windows. As I mentioned I can access the hard drive from my PC in Safemode, and the laptop can see the hard drive partition when I run the repair programs from the installation disk, but after rebooting it just acts like it can't see the drive. My best guess is that some start-up files got corrupted so I'm hoping there is something else I can do to try to save the drive before re-installing.
Any ideas?
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