If the BIOS works fine, then were you not able to boot a live-usb
session at all?
BIOS works fine. It even detects the HDD. But I was unable to boot even
from a live-usb. After I removed the HDD from the laptop, I am able to
boot from live-usb, confirming that the issue was with HDD.
Just
Thank you for your advice.
Well the laptop is a pretty old one and the HDD is ata.
Did you try connecting it to another system via a {,e}sata to usb adapter
cable? The most basic version is available in ebay.
I haven’t tried that yet as I don’t have the adapter with me at the moment.
But I have
On 01/01/2013 04:35 PM, Mathew Roy wrote:
Thanks for the help.
But sadly, it simply will not boot from any device, be it pendrive, or
bootable cd. Well. I opened the laptop, and removed HDD and now I can
boot from pendrive.
Do you mean to say that your laptop was not booting from any device
HI Visakh. Thankyou for your kind help. But, my problem is that the system
is not booting up from any device after win7 installation messed up. That
is, I cannot boot from cd or pendrive. In this situation, trying to install
anything is simply not going to produce any results.
Well. I have
I am sorry if what I said is confusing,.
Well what I meant was, after the win7 installation messed up. I was unable
to boot from HDD, pendrive, or CD. When I tried to boot, the POST checking
does pass, but after that, all I can see is a blinking cursor and nothing
else. Nothing works in that
Thanks for the help.
But sadly, it simply will not boot from any device, be it pendrive, or
bootable cd. Well. I opened the laptop, and removed HDD and now I can boot
from pendrive. I guess the partition table of the HDD became corrupt. May
be I can fix it by connecting the HDD to another computer
Hi,
What OS do you have on that system other than the messed up Win7
installation?
You could try to reinstall win7 again. Or, if you have any full
version of win or linux which was working before, you could also try
to reinstall its bootloader (grub for linux, bootmgr/ntldr for
windows). There
Two options:
1) use restore boot manager from windows7 installation dvd.
2) backup all ur data ..before formatting all ur partition to NFTS. Then
install win7 (u can hv an option to make partiton for win7) , after the
installation create many partitons as u want ..
Then install Linux if u want..
Hi all, I was trying to reinstall a DELL laptop completely. I partitioned
the HDD using Gparted. And I proceeded to install windows 7 in a NTFS
partition I created. The installation hung up when I tried to delete a
partition, I previously created. So I forced shutdown the lap.
And on
