Corrupted Laptop hard drive and locked bios.

[YouColdYet]

Hi recently my laptop been giving trouble wasn't booting up at all and bootloops on "windows files loading", how would i go about fixing it? currently i got everything documents i had on it backup on my gaming rig. Should i formatted it? then reinstall windows (was on windows 7)

[Electronics Wizardy]

reinstall windows, might be a bad hdd.

 

If you care about data, you probably want to make a image first. Best way is to take the drive out and plug it into anouther system.

[CodeNova]

15 minutes ago, YouColdYet said:

Hi recently my laptop been giving trouble wasn't booting up at all and bootloops on "windows files loading", how would i go about fixing it? currently i got everything documents i had on it backup on my gaming rig. Should i formatted it? then reinstall windows (was on windows 7)

yeah, but that wont fix your locked bios problem. If your laptop supports it and you want to upgrade, install windows 10 (I prefer 7 while it lasts).

you might have luck with this

Edit: more info

[CodeNova]

I guess in this post, @UrbanFreestyle recommended hiren's bootcd

This has some bios 'tools' in it.

 

[YouColdYet]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

reinstall windows, might be a bad hdd.

 

If you care about data, you probably want to make a image first. Best way is to take the drive out and plug it into anouther system.

yeah i already did and formatted but some errors poping about parameters, seems the hard drive is still corrupted

[YouColdYet]

1 hour ago, CodeNova said:

I guess in this post, @UrbanFreestyle recommended hiren's bootcd

This has some bios 'tools' in it.

 

cool thanks i might check it out but ill try installing windows 7 on my main rig then transfer

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, YouColdYet said:

yeah i already did and formatted but some errors poping about parameters, seems the hard drive is still corrupted

Go run a full disk check on it, but there is a good chance its dead. Do you still want data?

 

Otherwise id just get a ssd for the system.

 

[YouColdYet]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Go run a full disk check on it, but there is a good chance its dead. Do you still want data?

 

Otherwise id just get a ssd for the system.

 

CHKDSK command? I did, was successful but still shows corrupted on my computer 

[CodeNova]

14 minutes ago, YouColdYet said:

CHKDSK command? I did, was successful but still shows corrupted on my computer 

you could always try this

wmic diskdrive get status

more info

 

You very well could have a bad drive as @Electronics Wizardy said.

[YouColdYet]

Says Its ok, as i stated nothing isn't on the hard drive as of this moment

[YouColdYet]

Another problem arise i put in a older hard drive in my laptop but i'm having problem installing the drivers cause of the older drivers, which are for a different motherboard

[CodeNova]

4 minutes ago, YouColdYet said:

Says Its ok, as i stated nothing isn't on the hard drive as of this moment

Well if your drives blank, chkdsk is OK, and smart is OK, I would "clean" the drive, see if that fixes it.

more info

[YouColdYet]

On 3/12/2019 at 11:10 PM, CodeNova said:

Well if your drives blank, chkdsk is OK, and smart is OK, I would "clean" the drive, see if that fixes it.

more info

I'll let you know if it works, it should work hopefully.