I am having a major problem completing a Restore to factory setting on my Gateway computer. I had both Win 7 and Ubuntu on my hard brive.
Anyway, it stopped booting either in Grub or from the repair disc. I never got a push any key upon opening the repair disc by manually chosing the CD/Ram
When it opened the repair window. When I ran the startup repair, It would run for a very short time, then it would say repoob. Upon doing that it still would not reboot.
So I tried the recover the factory settings. With no results.
Now I have my American Megatrends page open. It says SATA Port o hard drive supported, then SATA Port 2 hard drive supported. Then SATA Port 4 DVD/Ram and under that it says Error: S.M.A.R.T. Staus Dad, Back up and Replace. I am not sure if it is telling me a hard drive is bad, or if the DVDRAM is.
If I hit the F1 to continue, and enter the port 0 Hard drive, it says Invalid partition table. If I hit the port 4 It loads windows files, It goes to the System Recovery Options. I use the Use Recovery tools option, Click on the Setup repair, it runs more than 12 hours. Then tells me the MBR is corupted.
So then I open the command Prompt and attempted to restore or reinstall the MBR and I am not sure it if did or not. Because the reboot would not open Win 7.
At this point I do not know if one or the other hardrives are bad, the DVDROM is bad or both. I don't know what to do at this point. Or if I have screwed everything up. And will have to get profesional help.
If I try the recovorey management option, It starts to install or repair. on the Gateway page. But then goes tight back to the American MegaTrends page.
I am at a lose as to what to do. I am sure most of my problem is that I've done something wrong. Or lots of somethings.
Anyway, it stopped booting either in Grub or from the repair disc. I never got a push any key upon opening the repair disc by manually chosing the CD/Ram
When it opened the repair window. When I ran the startup repair, It would run for a very short time, then it would say repoob. Upon doing that it still would not reboot.
So I tried the recover the factory settings. With no results.
Now I have my American Megatrends page open. It says SATA Port o hard drive supported, then SATA Port 2 hard drive supported. Then SATA Port 4 DVD/Ram and under that it says Error: S.M.A.R.T. Staus Dad, Back up and Replace. I am not sure if it is telling me a hard drive is bad, or if the DVDRAM is.
If I hit the F1 to continue, and enter the port 0 Hard drive, it says Invalid partition table. If I hit the port 4 It loads windows files, It goes to the System Recovery Options. I use the Use Recovery tools option, Click on the Setup repair, it runs more than 12 hours. Then tells me the MBR is corupted.
So then I open the command Prompt and attempted to restore or reinstall the MBR and I am not sure it if did or not. Because the reboot would not open Win 7.
At this point I do not know if one or the other hardrives are bad, the DVDROM is bad or both. I don't know what to do at this point. Or if I have screwed everything up. And will have to get profesional help.
If I try the recovorey management option, It starts to install or repair. on the Gateway page. But then goes tight back to the American MegaTrends page.
I am at a lose as to what to do. I am sure most of my problem is that I've done something wrong. Or lots of somethings.