Long story SHORT, Acer Laptop Win 7 Home Prem. X64 was working fine & then I dropped it five feet from the ground. Then when I started it hung on the Win 7 LOGO.

Then I inserted the reinstall USB & entered command prompts & now it's not even displaying a logo. I'm assuming SOMETHING in the hard disc got partially damaged.

There are 2 scenarios.

1] When I go to BIOS and leave the hard drive on AHCI mode & try to start up, I get the 'No bootable device -- insert boot disk & press enter' error.

2] When I go to BIOS and the hard drive on IDE mode & try to start up, I get the 'BootMgr is missing press any key to restart' error.


BIOS detects hard drive. EaseUS partition manager detects the drive but can't recover any boot partitions.

I already tried the Startup Repair many times over, no luck.

Here are some of the commands I entered in to the command prompt from the reinstall disc and still no luck.

Code: [Select]bootrec /FixMbr
bootrec /FixBoot
bootrec /RebuildBcd
chkdsk /f C:
chkdsk /r C:
chkdsk
Also did these :

Code: [Select]Command #1 – diskpart
Command #2 – list disk
Command #3 – select disk X
Command #4 – list partition
Command #5 – select partition 2
Command #6 – active
Command #7 – exit
And tried these but RAN into errors on one of these steps I believe so I didn't complete the steps...

Code: [Select]bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup
c:
cd boot
attrib bcd -s -h -r
ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
bootrec /RebuildBcd
Nothing worked. Hard Drive is a Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 . I haven't formatted the disc as I have important files on there,

Any little bit of help is appreciated. Thanks!
[/size][/color]If you are lucky, the hard drive got damaged, and you could buy a new one and reinstall Windows. If you are less lucky, the motherboard got cracked or otherwise damaged, in which case the device is scrap. It might be worth taking the device to a repair shop in case RAM modules need reseating.
Well here's what the Windows installation looks like, it seems to be recognizing the windows partition but unsure as to how to proceed

There is no Win install showing in that pic...it's asking where you want to install to if you look at it...

It would help if it was a full screenshot.Quote

BIOS detects hard drive. EaseUS partition manager detects the drive but can't recover any boot partitions.