yet another boot windows boot issue

[badbradmx]

My uncles laptop (toshiba satelitte c660-195) wont boot into windows, so here is what it will do and what ive tried.

 

powers on and bios screen passes with no problems but no windows.

Ive tried my hard drive with ubuntu installed in it, loaded fine, only issue was no wireless but ubuntu is fussy with that sort of thing. So in my opinion the hardware is fine.

Knowing this I tried a recovery CD i burnt and used successfully in the past, windows files load and i get the cursor then nothing, just hangs.

take the hard drive out and the CD laods fine.

Tried loading the CD and then plugging the drive in once or while its loading to no affect. either doesnt show up in the recovery tools or it hangs.

Ive tried plugging the hard drive into my computer and the laptop when running ubuntu and i can access one of the partitions and the other is completely unaccessible with no errors, just hangs.

It will allow me to press F8 and get the menu for safe mode etc

safe mode will not load

last known good config will not work.

 

I am at a point where I dont know where to go from here. I suspect a HDD failure but then how could i access the other parition on there?

I turn to you guys, Help me! please!

 

PS he really wants the pictures from the drive, which I havent been able to recover as of yet.

 

Cheers.

[dragosudeki]

I think if you want to hotswap the HDD you would have to set it in the BIOS? At least on my motherboard I had to.

[badbradmx]

I've just had a look in the bios and there is no option for hot swapping, we all know how limited laptop bios' are...

 

Also just tried enabling boot logging, BSOD...

[badbradmx]

bump... once a day this is allowed right? lol

[Altecice]

HDD is dead/dieing if you cant access it fully in another system. Also the fact it runs from a live CD (not using the HDD) points even more to the HDD.

Drives are funny creatures when they start to die and can just all of a sudden die on you (being really expensive to recover).

 

Dont mean to sound rude but if you care about any data you should have it backed up in 3 places.. aka his photos.

[badbradmx]

thats what i suspected, he came to me once all this had started, the recovery is the very reason i tried opening it in ubuntu, but how comes the other partition on the drive is fully accessible with no problems?

 

Would one of those recovery suites help with this at all? im guessing not as the drive isnt mounted properly.