I simply would no longer waste my time doing all this. The problem has already taken up eleven pages of posts and it appears there's little progress. I don't know about the OP, but this would be a severe waste of my time to keep going at this in this manner. I'm with you, time to wipe and reinstall from disk. I guess there are laptops/notebooks/netbooks that can't boot from an external CD/DVD drive but I've never seen one. Generally if they have no built-in CD/DVD drive they have the capacity to boot from an external drive. If this one can't I'd seriously consider ditching the whole computer and getting a better one that's easier to use. This is just nuts!
hdd has password. ? erase the 100 mb hidden partititon so u can mount in usb on other win. (do it with gparted . google yumi usb to help create bootable gparted) i seen the unmountable issue before.. seems the hidden partition blocks win7 from mounting.. xp mounts it fine. sata controler has issues on mobo.?
I understand but I have made a bootable usb flash drive before and it work just fine , the problem appear on my desktop, which is not creating the bootable flash drive correctly. i will try to use a diff comp to see if this might fix the problem
creating a dvd from a iso is ez just moun it on a a drive using a virtual drive using slysoft as an example and them burning the dvd. the bad thing is the a dvd drive would take longer time for the install of W7
did you see the video I created, which I provided the link? I have gone to that point which you mention. also I starting thing the hd might be bad. is there a way to try to recover some data, since I recently discover I need some data which is in this drive that I havent back : confused2:
no password on hdd I dont see a partition on the hdd I just see as unallocated, when i connect the laptop hadd via usb to the desktop. under diskmanager
Hello, I read a while since your problem and I think we see something else! since when does PC work? 1 year, 2 years? I think that there must be lots of dust in the fan system! This pc is always hot and the hdd doesn't like that! I have an envy 15 and the recovery disks, the hdd recovery can be corrupt. First : clean the pc with air duster Second:use an external dvd drive third : use the recovery dvd and after all ,if it doesn't work ,change the hdd. Sorry for my english,I'm new on this forum
Good points especially the heat issue.. As reported in the first post the machine just shut down while running unattended for only 2 hours..Although there has been no definitive explanation yet I am with you I suspect heat..Without that being addressed the rest is for not.. It would be nice to verify the current condition of the hard drive and possibly repair with Chkdsk if needed.
in gparted or any linux .. remove the 100 mb partition.. leaving the ntfs. now it lets u see the files in usb in windows 7. 2 system reserved partitions. (blocks the usb) xp has no problems seeing the usb hdd!