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    Windows 7 Dead hard drive (or not) - help with recovery options please

    FIXED - Re: Dead hard drive (or not) - help with recovery options please Well it's fixed! I ran chkdsk /r and that found a bad sector on a font. Then ran chkdsk /F and that came up clean. I then ran the recovery console and it found something goofy with the hard drive startup sequence. I ran...
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    Windows 7 Dead hard drive (or not) - help with recovery options please

    What happened was that she shut it down, and when she went to turn it back on the next day it tried to do a PXE boot because it couldn't boot from the hard disk. The BIOS indicates a non-system drive. The BIOS does show the drive, and the boot order is correct. The BIOS post doesn't appear any...
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    Windows 7 Dead hard drive (or not) - help with recovery options please

    One of our kids' laptops stopped booting a couple of days ago. I have confirmed there is nothing wrong with the laptop itself; it's a hard drive issue. To narrow this down I have: Placed the offending hard drive in an external drive enclosure attached to another computer. The other computer...
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