Win 7 HDD won't boot, says 0 bytes, tried start-up repair and chkdsk to no avail.
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beran
April 12, 2014 8:58:38 AM
My hard drive started having boot problem a few days ago. It kept running check disk when booting and while using it was fairly slow. In hind sight, I should have taken this opportunity to back up my documents and files but stupidly did not!
I booted it yesterday and it wanted to run check disk again but this time asked me if I wanted to repair. Since then I have pretty much been stuck on the Windows Boot Manager screen, with an error of 0xc000000f and says "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible".
I cannot find my Windows 7 disc so had to use an .iso repair disc. I can boot to this disc and see the system recovery options; I've tried start-up repair which doesn't work, system restore can't find any points and I've tried using the command prompt for checking the disk but it fails.
At this point, saving the data on the HDD is more important than having a fully functional drive. I have put the drive in a different computer running Win7. it checked the disk and was visible but not accessible. I put the drive back in my computer and I followed the advice in another thread about copying and pasting data while in the recovery options. A problem I have with this though, is that while I am looking at the recovery options, the drive partition reads 0 bytes. I can see it has split itself into "System Reserved", "Local" and "Boot". I can access everything but Local so cannot complete the copy+paste.
I'm confused as what step to take next. I've looked into TestDisk for restoring partitions and data recovery but don't really understand how I can use it when the drive doesn't boot.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
I booted it yesterday and it wanted to run check disk again but this time asked me if I wanted to repair. Since then I have pretty much been stuck on the Windows Boot Manager screen, with an error of 0xc000000f and says "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible".
I cannot find my Windows 7 disc so had to use an .iso repair disc. I can boot to this disc and see the system recovery options; I've tried start-up repair which doesn't work, system restore can't find any points and I've tried using the command prompt for checking the disk but it fails.
At this point, saving the data on the HDD is more important than having a fully functional drive. I have put the drive in a different computer running Win7. it checked the disk and was visible but not accessible. I put the drive back in my computer and I followed the advice in another thread about copying and pasting data while in the recovery options. A problem I have with this though, is that while I am looking at the recovery options, the drive partition reads 0 bytes. I can see it has split itself into "System Reserved", "Local" and "Boot". I can access everything but Local so cannot complete the copy+paste.
I'm confused as what step to take next. I've looked into TestDisk for restoring partitions and data recovery but don't really understand how I can use it when the drive doesn't boot.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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okcnaline
April 12, 2014 9:01:46 AM
beran
April 12, 2014 11:46:02 AM
okcnaline said:
Check if your hard drive is inserted all the way in inside the laptop/desktop. Sounds stupid, I know. And make sure it's plugged in. And maybe boot it into safe mode and make sure there's no virus. I haven't heard of 0 bytes.It is connected properly. I've tried it in the other SATA ports on the motherboard as well and the same thing still happens. I don't think I can boot in safe mode, it just won't let me.
In the command prompt, I tried to look at the directories and it came back with "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable". Hopefully there is some way to fix this so that I can get the data files back!
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April 12, 2014 5:42:15 PM
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