
not bootable device window on toshiba laptop with vista
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queenie1121
, Jul 07 2010 02:45 PM
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Posted 07 July 2010 - 02:45 PM

#2
Posted 08 July 2010 - 02:16 PM

May not be your fault at all. Hard disks have a limited lifespan and will eventually fail - it's just a case of when it decides to do that. It's just your bad luck it decided to fail when you borrowed it! If the hard disk has failed, recovery discs would be no use anyway - only a new hard disk will rectify that.
To establish if the hard disk has failed you need to ascertain what make it is, then download the free testing software from that maker's website. Basically, the testing software creates a bootable CD which you can create on any working computer regardless of which version of Windows it's running. Then you put that bootable CD into the cd-drive of the broken laptop and boot from it. It will run a series of tests on the drive even if Windows doesn't work.
To establish if the hard disk has failed you need to ascertain what make it is, then download the free testing software from that maker's website. Basically, the testing software creates a bootable CD which you can create on any working computer regardless of which version of Windows it's running. Then you put that bootable CD into the cd-drive of the broken laptop and boot from it. It will run a series of tests on the drive even if Windows doesn't work.
Edited by phillipcorcoran, 08 July 2010 - 02:17 PM.
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