Samsung ultrabook and windows 7

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Gooday fellow hardware geeks.

I have a Samsung ultra book 5 series for a while and it worked fine etc.

Here is my problem: The HDD got damaged and the recovery says that the drive is missing files and cannot recover to windows 8.( preinstalled on the drive)
Windows it self also doesn't boot. It just pops to a blue screen saying that the recovery failed and I can only exit back to soft reset or to the bios.

The ultrabook doesn't has a cd/dvd drive so booting via the USB is my only option. I've tried that with windows 7 but it won't find the HDD.
I've read somewhere that these ultrabooks uses special partitions or so.
How do I remove those partitions and make then just plain NTFS? Or as last resort to FAT32.
The Laptop/ultrabook in question is a: samsung NP540U3C

A big hug and much of appriciation who knows what to do!.

Greetz Edo.

PS, please excuse my lack in English. Thanks.

 
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If you using the same drive you said went bad, trying to get Windows on it without making sure it's OK to run would be a waste. Boot to the BIOS, see if there is a utility there to check the drive. If there is not, make a Linux Live CD boot disk and boot off that, use the disk utility in Linux to test the drive http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/37659/the-beginners-guide-to-linux-disk-utilities/ If the drive checks out OK, make a Windows 10 USB boot disk, and see if that will install OK.
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If it had Windows 8, I would go to Windows 10, it will activate on your system and is better with working with newer systems than Windows 7. You said the drive got damaged, we are assuming you replaced it right? Or are you just trying to install Windows again on that same drive?
 
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edonl

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First of all, Thanks for the reply and info.

Second. I asummed the drive was dead because I didnt found any partition booting it from usb with "dos and diskpart"
The bios see's it just fine and booting it normaly with the HDD drive only inserted the laptop/notebooks with the recovery automatticly saying the boot files or recovery files are missing. So it does read something from the HDD.

Anyhows I've tried to kill the unknown partitions with diskpart and make new partition in NTFS and/or FAT32 and after a reboot trying to install windows 7 64bit but still the same thing happens. It won't continue to install. ( it just idle's)
Next thing I've did.. is to boot again from usb with diskpart and it didnt'showed any logical drives at all:/ Its all gone. ( still shows up in bios tho)
I guess I killed it with replacing the unknown partitions with diskpart and fdisk to a fat 32..


I hope this info has helped you. ( ps this is a hardisk with SSD and HDD in 1.. that combo thingy) Dunno what to call it.
 
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If you using the same drive you said went bad, trying to get Windows on it without making sure it's OK to run would be a waste. Boot to the BIOS, see if there is a utility there to check the drive. If there is not, make a Linux Live CD boot disk and boot off that, use the disk utility in Linux to test the drive http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/37659/the-beginners-guide-to-linux-disk-utilities/ If the drive checks out OK, make a Windows 10 USB boot disk, and see if that will install OK.
 
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