Hard drive failure?

[vince992004]

My Vista 64 bit Toshiba laptop is unable to boot. It goes to the screen that says Microsoft Corporation with the green bar that scrolls left to right and sits there for a few minutes, then goes to a black screen.

When I try to run a Ghost boot disc, or a Vista repair disk from NeoSmart, the same thing happens.

I am able to boot a memtest86 disc, it found no errors.

I am trying to determine if the hard drive is bad.

I've looked for a hard drive diagnostic from Fujitsu, the drive manufacturer, but it is only ATA and this is a SATA drive. It says there is no hard drive installed.

I tried the Hitachi diagnostic but it gets partially through the load process from its boot disc, and then just sits there.

Does anyone have a suggestion how to check this hard drive before buying another one? If the problem is elsewhere, then I will just buy another computer.
Thanks

 

[owensdj]

I think Fujitsu transferred its hard drive business to Toshiba. This page has diagnostic software that works(it said) with Fujitsu SATA drives.

http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=ServicesSupport/WarrantySupport/SoftwareUtilities

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

get a linux boot cd and see if you can see the drive. It's more than likely HD corruption caused by virus or hardware fault. But you may still be able to see your data and recover it...if you care to do that.