Comments on: Very strange hard drive failure symptoms

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 03 May 2016 13:52:07 +0000

Hello, I’ve Acer 5749 laptop. My laptop stopped working. When I plugged the charger I can see the blue lights on but when i on the computer it still remains black And there is no sound

By: peter

peter — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 20:17:16 +0000

Followed the “towel cure” before I try to baking the motherboard of my Presario v6000 and already after 20 min.the screen came back to live!! 🙂 I keep it 1,5 houers in the towels,as it dont get it really good hot…but it helps..Hope it wil stay some time..Great site!! Thumbs up.The laptop was out of bussines for 3 years,as I was not really in to it to take the motherboard out…but thanks god its solved now.

By: max

max — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:27:55 +0000

Hi,

I have an HDD issue on a laptop ASUS A6J, and the problem, even if different, it looks interesting.

After a successfully OS installation (i.e. Windows 8, Vista or Linux), the laptop boots without problem.
But when the laptop remains powered off for while (tens of minutes), then it does not boot because of the error:

No bootable device. Please insert boot disc and press any key to continue…

It sounds strange to me, because the BIOS always reads the hard disk correctly.

The SMART functionality also does not show any issue, as well as various HDD tools used for diagnosis (i.e. Hiren’s CD, Windows check).

I have tried to replace the hard disk, but the problem persists: then it seems not related to a specific drive.

I thought to a battery CMOS problem (since it is older than 10y), I replaced the CR2032 but the issue remains exactly the same: cold boot does not work, warm boot is fine (i.e. by booting from a CD/DVD).

Any idea?

By: jagan

jagan — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 08:07:43 +0000

Hi..,
i have use windows 7. i forgot my admini possword…, how to reset or how to recover

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:50:57 +0000

I have a Toshiba Sattelite S855D-S523. I’ve only had it a few months but intermittantly I will turn it on and it will partially boot up and then suddenly just go off with no warning. It has been doing that since I got it. The last few days it says windows was unable to start. I let it go back to a previous time and that worked for a week or two but now I’m getting the same message. I go through the repair process and this time I didn’t do the previous time period routine I click on finish and it goes off. Then I restart and everything is fine again. However I put the symptoms of a failed hard drive into google and I am immediately rerouted to this page. My friend said he had a similar problem and that turned out to be his problem. I just want a computer that works and I am very annoyed ghat this one doesn’t because I am using it to take online classes. I will be contacting Toshiba.

By: ET2010

ET2010 — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 22:45:36 +0000

i have a serious problem, from 3 weeks my daughter closed my laptop monitor and when i try to open the computer again it didn’t work at all, the computer didn’t see the HDD from any where the HDD is disappear the computer says there is no hard drive and i hear some noise from the HDD i’m trying many many times and the hard still not working so i get new HDD and when i put it it works after that i connect the old HDD with USB but again the computer didn’t see the old HDD at all, so i connect it with anther desktop computer and my HDD didn’t appear, i try many programs to make the computer see the HDD but no 1 of them works, i don’t know what to do with this HDD i have very Important data in this hard and i need to recover this data i need this hard to work 1 time only. thanks

By: Lostin translaptation

Lostin translaptation — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:01:24 +0000

My wife’s laptop has been dead for a few weeks now and I am finally working on it at work because I have some time.

I can fix most issues with hardware and sometimes software…but this one has me dumbfounded…
pulled hardrive…got same symptoms as article writer…must be hard drive I automatically assumed..

I have the USB harddrive hook up to pull up the harddrive and I can’t even get that to connect…never had a problem before…

The drive was recognized but I believe it is either literally dead or physically. About to call Toshiba because she has had it less than a year…

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:34:21 +0000

In reply to Christos. @ Christos,

I changed HDD and got the same problems. I changed my memory modules with 2 others and got the same problems. The point is that BIOS and memtest recognize the modules in all my cases, so i guess based on your response that one of the slots is the problem and loses its connection with the module during operation. So i guess i should find by â€œtry and errorâ€ the problematic slot in order to stop using it.

Try using memory modules one by one. Try different slots. If the laptop still freezes, I guess this is some kind of motherboard related failure. It's possible there is a micro crack somewhere on the motherboard.

By: Christos

Christos — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:06:23 +0000

@cj2600
After trials with other 2 memory modules tested in both slots (one by one) at all cases i get reboots or freeze. I guess that means either both slots are dead (jack pot for me!) or i should call my motherboard RIP.
Any other ideas or should i start searching for a new laptop?
Regards
Christos

By: Christos

Christos — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:16:31 +0000

@cj2600

Thank you for your response. Update on my situation…

I changed HDD and got the same problems. I changed my memory modules with 2 others and got the same problems. The point is that BIOS and memtest recognize the modules in all my cases, so i guess based on your response that one of the slots is the problem and loses its connection with the module during operation. So i guess i should find by “try and error” the problematic slot in order to stop using it.

PS sorry for my english not a native speaker