Hello everyone I am a newbie here at Tom's Hardware
I have been fixing computers since windows 95
I am trying to determine weather the hard drive in this computer is shot. Since I do not have college level experience in hardware, I figured I would ask someone with more expertise in the matter. Thank you all ahead of time!
Here is the screen I get when I try to boot the computer normal; it just hangs
So I use the F8 menu and tried everything, and everything leads to the same hang even command prompt
As you can see below when I tried the command prompt in hung on the AtiPcie.sys file
I decide to try to boot from cd rom and use the repair disc
I am in the f2 menu as you can see the SATA Mode is set to AHCI Mode by default
So I try to use the Windows 7 repair disc
When I try to use the Windows 7 repair disc in this mode it just hangs on this screen
So I switch the SATA Mode to IDE Mode to see if it makes a difference
And it does the repair disc is loaded
The first thing I try is the Startup repair
and it seems to be doing its thing
After 6 hours I gave up on this
Next I tried the restore point, NONE
I had no image to use.... because the PC is not mine
I tried the memory test, which tested normal
I then tried command prompt and ran a chkdsk D: /f
Chkdsk also hangs around 4% I left this run for at least 10 hours It also reported multiple files were inaccessible
I tried to run the windows 7 setup and install a new, even though the files prob aren't all there.
No cd-rom driver found
Any suggestions or comments
I have been fixing computers since windows 95
I am trying to determine weather the hard drive in this computer is shot. Since I do not have college level experience in hardware, I figured I would ask someone with more expertise in the matter. Thank you all ahead of time!
Here is the screen I get when I try to boot the computer normal; it just hangs
So I use the F8 menu and tried everything, and everything leads to the same hang even command prompt
As you can see below when I tried the command prompt in hung on the AtiPcie.sys file
I decide to try to boot from cd rom and use the repair disc
I am in the f2 menu as you can see the SATA Mode is set to AHCI Mode by default
So I try to use the Windows 7 repair disc
When I try to use the Windows 7 repair disc in this mode it just hangs on this screen
So I switch the SATA Mode to IDE Mode to see if it makes a difference
And it does the repair disc is loaded
The first thing I try is the Startup repair
and it seems to be doing its thing
After 6 hours I gave up on this
Next I tried the restore point, NONE
I had no image to use.... because the PC is not mine
I tried the memory test, which tested normal
I then tried command prompt and ran a chkdsk D: /f
Chkdsk also hangs around 4% I left this run for at least 10 hours It also reported multiple files were inaccessible
I tried to run the windows 7 setup and install a new, even though the files prob aren't all there.
No cd-rom driver found
Any suggestions or comments