Laptop won't boot from anything.

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is the bios seeing the hard drive & if so then windows might be corrupted via software or hardware as in bad sectors in the hard drive?

 

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Yes the hdd is recognized in the bios, in fact everything is getting recognized.
As for bad sectors or windows corruptions i do not think it may be the problem because i have also replaced the hdd (forgot to mension it..) before with another one that worked perfectly on it's laptop so..

 

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can you get into the safemode menu at all?

 

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No i cannot.

 

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try this. remove main battery, disconnect power adapter from laptop, hold down the power button for 20 count, re-install main battery, reconnect power adapter & turn on the laptop.

 

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Done it, still nothing, not booting hdd, not even booting any kind of recovering media, either usb or dvd, it gets stuck on windows logo and reboots.

 

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you tried good ram off another laptop with still same problem, correct? have you tried setting the bios settings to default?

 

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Yes that is correct. And yes i have defaulted it several times.

 

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how good is your battery charge as try booting without the power adapter & try with main battery removed but power adapter connected to laptop?

 

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Just tried booting anything with battery and no power adapter & vice versa, still nothing is booting.. This is some case..

 

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right now I'm leaning towards the cpu as the problem as you tried different ram, different hard drive, tried to boot from windows disk, defaulted the bios & hard reset it too with same results.

 

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Right now, i'm not getting the black screen at hdd boot anymore, instead appears a message from boot manager saying that the boot configuration data for your pc is missing or contains errors and keeps rebooting. Also i have tried the Hiren's Boot CD and it boots, anything to do with it?

 

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go into the bios to see if the time & date is correct.

 

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It was not, i have now corrected it. Still nothing happened.

 

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I just ran into the same problem and found a solution.
Go into the BIOS and look for UEFI/Legacy Boot (or something to that effect) and make sure it's set to Both.

Mine was set to UEFI Only and wouldn't boot my Windows 7 install disc or Hiren's Boot CD.

 

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