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Capslacka

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Hello,
Yesterday I had a fully functional pc with a fairly fresh install of windows 7, and everything ran perfectly. Today, I got home, and was unhappy to find a quick flash of a BSOD, followed by a restart. When it booted again, the window came up saying that something prevented windows 7 from starting. I can get into the System Recovery tool preinstalled on my HDD, and after multiple failed attempts at Startup Repair, I attempted using BootRec through the Cmd. I tried a ScanOS but it said no windows installations were found.
Any ideas?
I'll resort to a fresh install if I have to, but I'd rather not lose all my data. I just got through a hard drive failure and would hate to have to redownload everything.
Thanks
 
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BillyDataGuy
There is a good chance your HD has failed. New computer or not, anything can cause a hd to fail especially on a laptop. A small jar, or bump while the computer is on, even setting it down too rough. No OS found means it cannot read the drive. This is the case about 75% of the time with this error.

Check disk will make a failing hd fail faster.

Markaflias last comment was a good one to see if the data is viewable when slaved to another computer.

Bad sectors, failed heads, corrupt firmware. It looks like your MBR could be damaged. If you cant see files after slaving it and you need your data you will need professional data recovery. Do not use free software unless your data isn't worth anything to you. Free or cheap software will not...
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Capslacka

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AHCI was in fact disabled. However changing it to AHCI from IDE made no difference. Still blue screen after bios screen, and still no installation found. I'm assuming AHCI was supposed to be disabled in the first place.

And for running chkdsk /r, I tried that multiple times before, only to get stuck during or before the USN Journal check. My hard drive seems to be performing fine though. That is the strange part.
 
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Thats kinda strange if you take the hdd out of your computer and put it into another computer can you see the files/windows folder etc. ¿? MAybe instead of that try using a live-cd on your computer and with the live-cd desktio loaded try to access the hdd .
 
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There is a good chance your HD has failed. New computer or not, anything can cause a hd to fail especially on a laptop. A small jar, or bump while the computer is on, even setting it down too rough. No OS found means it cannot read the drive. This is the case about 75% of the time with this error.

Check disk will make a failing hd fail faster.

Markaflias last comment was a good one to see if the data is viewable when slaved to another computer.

Bad sectors, failed heads, corrupt firmware. It looks like your MBR could be damaged. If you cant see files after slaving it and you need your data you will need professional data recovery. Do not use free software unless your data isn't worth anything to you. Free or cheap software will not get you around physically damaged hard drive, in fact it will only make things worse.
 
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