Select System Restore and choose a System Restore point.

You can Press F2 while the lap top is rebooting at any time. Sounds like to me, you need a new HD because it's over three to five years it's best to replace it. You want to select one of the Tests for the HD. Diagnostic repair doesn't repair anything, it just lets you knowĪfter you find a way to get all of your dad's stuff saved to the external drive, then you must When your lap top went into Diagnostic Repair, it did that to let you know the OS and OR the What you are doing is to find a way to save all your Dads stuff he likes everything Some of these Restore options might not work, so you need a separate USB or storage drive You are going to need an empty external drive. Plug it into the lap top and save all the files. Once you get this done, use your dads drive as a USB device. If you didn't do that, you will have to order themįrom HP.

Replace it with a new one, Reboot it while The purpose of this note, is to try to save all your files. If the original HD is not corrupted, it will run well and then you can retrieveĪll your precious things, photos, Mp3 and anything else you want. One to your factory restored Lap Top as an External Storage drive. Just replace the HD with a new one, and then hook up the old If you don't have an HP, then everything from here on is a Question Mark for Some software will just give you RAW data back. I wrote over my storage drive, 415 GB of precious stuff. To go any further, you will erase the drive. Some of the HP restore options might not work. Remember you need to retrieve all of you stuff first as soon as you can. You need them, and they will make them for you. You will have a factory new lap top, eact to the day you took it out of the boe. That new one, all automatically while you follow the written instructions on Now you have your new HD in the lap top, and you use your disks to format You all should have made your restore disks for each individual lap top You want to save all your precious files. The most important thing you can do is you can replace the Hard Drive. If you have an external hard enclosure you can place the old hard drive in it or use a usb adapter to try to recover files.įirst of all for all other lap top brands, your OS on your HD is Corrupted. It sounds as if HDD is faulty the easiest way may be to buy a replacement and replace it and then reinstall windows from your system recovery disks or download from microsoft's website. This may provide an opportunity to strip the data of the drive in case anything goes wrong- USB drive as a destination etc.īut if faulty the only long term solution is to replace the drive You may be able to do this if you remove the hard drive from the laptop and place it in the a desktop computer as a second drive and use the administrative tools and hard drive utilities of the OS to do this. If the drive has a fault at the beginning it will not work - you may be able to use disk utilities to move the partition to an ares not faulty and also resize the partition. The ultimate boot disk may also let you do this. A) see if you can check hard drive using a utility disk from the maker of the hard drive-most have a bootable iso file that you can burn a cd that will boot the computer and let you check the drive.

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