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Laptop won't boot

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linehand

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I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this. I have a Gateway nv7802u laptop that no longer recognizes the HDD It has win7 the other day I had a couple of progs open and the screen froze up. I could not get things to reset with cnt-alt-del or anything I tried, so I removed the battry. NOW it will not boot at all. I tried the start up recover disk, no go. when I go into the bios setup it does not even find a HDD in the machine. I’m pretty sure the partition table is corupt. I removed the drive and installed it in an usb enclosure, connected to another laptop, and cant get windows to recognize the usb drive is there a way to reset the partition or at least recover the data from this drive? suggested recovery software to try? Thanks for any help.

linehand
 
If you removed the battery while it was frozen, you probably screwed things up on the HDD. You netioned Ctrl-Alt-Del, etc., but you did not mention the designed way of powering off a frozen laptop. That is, you hold down the on/off button until it goes off. Takes several seconds.

I think your only recourse now is a clean install of Win 7 from a DVD. If the drive (as USB external) cannot be seen by anything, it is hosed.

BTW, this is the right forum.
 
linehand said:
I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this. I have a Gateway nv7802u laptop that no longer recognizes the HDD It has win7 the other day I had a couple of progs open and the screen froze up. I could not get things to reset with cnt-alt-del or anything I tried, so I removed the battry. NOW it will not boot at all. I tried the start up recover disk, no go. when I go into the bios setup it does not even find a HDD in the machine. I’m pretty sure the partition table is corupt. I removed the drive and installed it in an usb enclosure, connected to another laptop, and cant get windows to recognize the usb drive is there a way to reset the partition or at least recover the data from this drive? suggested recovery software to try? Thanks for any help.

linehand
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Depending on the brand of drive, you may be able to download a utility from the manufacturer of the drive to bring it back to life. Go to the manufacturer's web site. From my experience, depending on whether it a SATA or IDE, it needs to be installed in a platform which has it's native interface i.e. not over a USB interface for the utility to work.

Actually, after re-reading your post, if the drive is not recognized by your computer you're screwed. A google of your laptop indicates it's a 5400 rpm SATA drive. You can find 250 Gb 7200 rpm SATA's new for under $50 if you look for them.

All you need to do is replace that puppy, break out your recovery disk and recover your image.

If not, you've learned a valuable lesson about backups.
 
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the bios setup doesn't care how the partitions are setup. It should see the drive regardless. If it's not seeing any drive connected you've got other problems, and if you install the 2.5 in a portable 2.5 enclosure you may have to go to disk management, mark it as active and assign it a drive letter for windows to "see" it and for you to grab your files.
 
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