Hello,
I've been asked to fix a laptop that doesn't boot and I've narrowed it down to this;
Hard disk is relatively new, I switched it in the same laptop not too long ago, when it was corrupted. It worked fine after and now I'm assuming there's a problem with the hard drive again, or possibly the motherboard (since this happened twice in ~6 months).
First I tried to just remove and reinstall the hard drive and RAM. No difference.
1. The laptop doesn't recognize the hard drive as bootable. It shows under the boot menu, but when you try to boot from it, it just says there is no bootable device. I tried the same drive in my laptop and it booted to Windows loading screen, but it never went past that. It was just loading forever. My hard disk booted correctly in that laptop.
2. I figured I'd try a Windows reinstall, in case there is a corrupted boot file. But when I booted from the USB stick, it's stuck on "Preparing to run the Setup program". It doesn't go past that screen.
So, I guess I should run a Memtest and disk diagnostic. If I don't see anything wrong with the drive, could it be the motherboard?
I've been asked to fix a laptop that doesn't boot and I've narrowed it down to this;
Hard disk is relatively new, I switched it in the same laptop not too long ago, when it was corrupted. It worked fine after and now I'm assuming there's a problem with the hard drive again, or possibly the motherboard (since this happened twice in ~6 months).
First I tried to just remove and reinstall the hard drive and RAM. No difference.
1. The laptop doesn't recognize the hard drive as bootable. It shows under the boot menu, but when you try to boot from it, it just says there is no bootable device. I tried the same drive in my laptop and it booted to Windows loading screen, but it never went past that. It was just loading forever. My hard disk booted correctly in that laptop.
2. I figured I'd try a Windows reinstall, in case there is a corrupted boot file. But when I booted from the USB stick, it's stuck on "Preparing to run the Setup program". It doesn't go past that screen.
So, I guess I should run a Memtest and disk diagnostic. If I don't see anything wrong with the drive, could it be the motherboard?
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