jerzdawg Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Not sure what happened, was working fine one day and the next its just an infinite loop from the boot tests to black screen, back to boot. Hard drive is still detected in bios. My only assumption is that the hard drive crashed? Its an old laptop with a Centrino duo 1.5ghz processor. At this point I just want to recover some stuff from the hard drive (everything else is backed up to a NAS). Any suggestions? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted December 16, 2014 MVC Share Posted December 16, 2014 I would create a bootables PE cd (or linux distro) Boot off that and assuming the hard drive is still some what readable, hook an external hard drive up or a sata dock with a sata hard drive and copy the data off. If the data won't copy then you would have to look at stuff like Spinrite to repair the bad sectors and then recover the data. Or if you have given up all hope try the guide I wrote below https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1137536-recover-data-from-a-hard-drive-with-massive-uncorrectable-bad-sectors/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerzdawg Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 I would create a bootables PE cd (or linux distro) Boot off that and assuming the hard drive is still some what readable, hook an external hard drive up or a sata dock with a sata hard drive and copy the data off. If the data won't copy then you would have to look at stuff like Spinrite to repair the bad sectors and then recover the data. Or if you have given up all hope try the guide I wrote below https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1137536-recover-data-from-a-hard-drive-with-massive-uncorrectable-bad-sectors/ Thx, can I make one of those using a USB drive instead of cd? my work laptops no longer come with optical drives.. as far as the laptop is concerned.. you think its just the hard drive? not sure if its worth just buying another one and starting fresh.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted December 16, 2014 MVC Share Posted December 16, 2014 Thx, can I make one of those using a USB drive instead of cd? my work laptops no longer come with optical drives.. as far as the laptop is concerned.. you think its just the hard drive? not sure if its worth just buying another one and starting fresh.. If the laptop is new enough to boot from USB then yes. If it was me i'd run spinrite to check the drive over. But that's $89. I think there is a free hard drive sector scanner, not sure what the name of it is though. you could always download a trial version of Hard drive regenerator which is good for 1 sector repair, at least then you would know you have bad sectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAZMINATOR Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 If the laptop is new enough to boot from USB then yes. First, check and see if the update available for BIOS which might have more features than the old version... which allow you change the boot order.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerzdawg Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 First, check and see if the update available for BIOS which might have more features than the old version... which allow you change the boot order.. I can still get into the bios to change the boot order from hard drive to CD/DVD... I am not 100% sure if it can boot from USB yet.. I guess Ill find out. I think it was from 2007 or 2008.. lets put it this way.. it has an HD-DVD drive in it.. :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Tried booting Last Known Good or Safe mode first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAZMINATOR Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I can still get into the bios to change the boot order from hard drive to CD/DVD... I am not 100% sure if it can boot from USB yet.. I guess Ill find out. I think it was from 2007 or 2008.. lets put it this way.. it has an HD-DVD drive in it.. :woot: Mine shows USB in boot configuration... which allows me to choose USB first in the order .. No problem.. If you don't see USB in the list, then you will need to update BIOS in order to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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