This is really 2 things. The hard drive on my Acer Aspire V5-571 has bad sectors....so I need ideas on how to pull data off of that HDD as it contains several documents that I really should have backed up. Next, I ended up replacing the HDD with a new one. However, when I tried to boot from a Windows 8.1 disk, it completely bypasses that and says "No Operating System Found". My first thought was to change boot options...so I looked up how to get into BIOS and it's UEFI by default...lovely. I can't access BIOS at all. I've tried del, F12, F2 and nothing works....it just beeps and goes back to the same message. Next, I tried a bootable USB drive with Win 8.1 on it...same exact thing. It bypasses and goes right to "Operating System Not Found". I didn't know what the heck was going on, so I ended up putting it into my Lenovo and installing Windows 8.1 on it. I put it back in the Acer and THE SAME THING HAPPENS. I reset the CMOS using the short under the RAM...still not working. So, just a few questions from this:
1. Is BIOS unequivocally shot?
2. Is there anything else that I can possibly try? I assume UEFI wasn't turned on with the new hard drive by my lenovo because it's several years old and built for Win. 7. I just figured that resetting CMOS would take care of this..
3. Please tell me there is still hope for getting documents off of this hard drive
3. Any other tools people recommend for recovering data from corrupt hard drives?
1. Is BIOS unequivocally shot?
2. Is there anything else that I can possibly try? I assume UEFI wasn't turned on with the new hard drive by my lenovo because it's several years old and built for Win. 7. I just figured that resetting CMOS would take care of this..
3. Please tell me there is still hope for getting documents off of this hard drive
3. Any other tools people recommend for recovering data from corrupt hard drives?