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Answer» I came back from class and my computer showed an error on a completely black screen. One of the things it said was to run the startup repair. So, I turned on my computer, booted from my Windows 7 DVD, tried the automated repair and it said that it could not automatically repair it. Funny thing was, when I selected which Windows installation to repair, it showed my Windows 7 installation on a 0 GB Hard drive... but mine is 160 GB (it's about 6 years old). I booted up my Windows XP (on a different hard drive). Normally, my 160 GB HD appears as the D: drive on XP, but now it's gone. I ran TestDisk, selected "no log", and it didn't even list my 160 GB hard drive. What should I do?Quote What should I do?Install you backup drive.Quote from: FutureTrackStar on October 20, 2010, 01:54:20 PM it showed my Windows 7 installation on a 0 GB Hard drive... but mine is 160 GB Was 160 GB, I rather think. It sounds very much as if the 6 year old drive that held Windows 7 has failed. Completely. Quote from: FutureTrackStar on October 20, 2010, 01:54:20 PM What should I do? Buy a NEW hard drive and install in place of the failed one. If you had made a backup image of Windows 7 on another drive, then you couild RESTORE this onto the new drive, or if you had not, then you will have to reinstall Windows 7 on the new drive, and re-activate it. List of backup software From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backup_softwareQuote from: FutureTrackStar on October 20, 2010, 01:54:20 PM I came back from class and my computer showed an error on a completely black screen. One of the things it said was to run the startup repair. So, I turned on my computer, booted from my Windows 7 DVD, tried the automated repair and it said that it could not automatically repair it. Funny thing was, when I selected which Windows installation to repair, it showed my Windows 7 installation on a 0 GB Hard drive... but mine is 160 GB (it's about 6 years old). I booted up my Windows XP (on a different hard drive). Normally, my 160 GB HD appears as the D: drive on XP, but now it's gone. I ran TestDisk, selected "no log", and it didn't even list my 160 GB hard drive. What should I do? Don't buy a new harddrive just yet. When you booted with the XP drive, make sure you set the jumpers correctly so XP is master, and the windows 7 is slave. If that doesn't work: Try and get your hands on an IDE -> USB converter, boot up using your Windows XP drive, and see if the windows 7 harddrive shows. If it does, and it's 0gb it will most likally display as a RAW drive. Run checkdisk, see if that FIXES it. If you gain access to the HDD at any time, back up all you need, reformat, reinstall, checkdisk. I've had this problem before, patience is the only thing that fixes it. If it was working in the machine before, and nothing has happened (i.e the computer was hit, dropped etc) it is very unlikally to be hardware, more likally someone has corrupted the SYSTEM files, or the master file table (hence showing as RAW instead of NTFS). I've lost a couple of drives to RAW, as the only way it's been fixable is reformatting and losing all the data on it. If it comes to that, and reformatting is the only way to fix it, buy some recovery software which will recover alot of, if not all the data on the drive. check ur hdd connector or keep the disk for 7day before performing a fresh installation Quote from: oneil on October 21, 2010, 08:15:58 AM keep the disk for 7day before performing a fresh installationI'm curious about what you think this will do. |
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