How do I get it to boot up normally again to access my data?

I finished writing my internship report, and then everything went haywire. I thought turning it on and off would be the solution, but no luck. It spent 8 hours checking and repairing the C drive, and then I was in the BIOS system. I thought if I restarted it, it would work. No matter which key I press on my Asus—f2, f12, enf, or esc—it always shows me the same thing.

urgently need help!

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PrincPersia
2 years ago

Uff that doesn’t look good for your hard drive. If possible, download a Linux distribution to your USB stick, and boot it to your computer as a live CD or transfer your hard drive to other computers, and see if you can at least access your hard drive there. If so, secure your data as soon as possible, and then try to reinstall Windows. Maybe we have a little hope that only Windows is cacted.

And if you can’t even access your data, it looks like a hard drive. And data retention of defect hard drive can become expensive. That’s why it’s always important to secure all the important files on 2 hard drives. After all, one has the advantage that one can still access important data despite the fact that one hard drive sometimes fails.

Mark Berger
2 years ago
Reply to  PrincPersia

Almost right – look at my links and my answer.

In case of an emergency, you can copy one file or one hand full. But otherwise you should have a HDD always clone!

Mark Berger
2 years ago

he checked 8h the running gear c

This isn’t repairing but destroying data. Look:https://disk-doctor.eu/blog/index.php?t=chkdsk_feind_meiner_data

Yes because you may have damaged the head of the HDD with the commands:https://disk-doctor.eu/blog/index.php?t=was_fit_bei_datenrettung_mit_software

If you put a beaten HDD with CHKDSK or other tests, you’re just stressless. To do this, you need to know that an HDD recognizes defective and non-readable sectors and replaces them with new ones.

Since you don’t know if the head of the HDD is damaged you cause for every single reading error:

  1. Up to 30 attempts to read the sector
  2. Note the sector on a list for mapping

Then after 20 seconds of idling, the background processes make the following for each sector that is identified as faulty on the HDD:

  1. Search next free reserve sector
  2. Reassign sector and note this in firmware
  3. Update the SMART value and logs.

Points 2 and 3 ensure that the potentially damaged head then performs several entries in essential parts of the firmware for each reading error.

Repairing is quite useful when a logical error, for example, was caused by a crash of the PC. In this case, the HDD would be fine but data in the file system were written incompletely.

This would be seen on the basis of the SMART data.

However, you did not know whether your HDD has a physical error (beaten head, age-related wear, firmware, etc.) or a logical error (wrong/unfinished data in the file system catalog).

As with the doctor, you have to first examine the patient and then select the appropriate treatment and not just do anything.

I finished screaming my internship report… urgently needed help!

There are two options – you can try to clone the HDD yourself. However, this can fail at any time. Therefore, you should definitely monitor the process (then stay and hear whether the HDD starts to click) to break when the head fails.

If the data is important, I would go to a professional. We make prof. data recovery and if the HDD is still recognized in the BIOS we will be able to save the data to 90% safely for 199 EUR.

Mark Berger
2 years ago
Reply to  EmmaDNA

Clicking in itself can have different causes – depending on the click and frequency. In any case, it’s an absolute alarm.

So you can try to clone the HDD with Linux and pray that the head keeps, drop the case or take the loss.

If you want to risk it yourself – take GDRT: https://sourceforge.net/projects/disk-doctor-recovery-toolkit/

If no more data is read or only read errors come and the HDD sounds funny or clicks the head is completely through. As long as it only occasionally clicks, it can be a restart due to a mistake or anything else.

Without the STATUS messages of the HDD, this is hard to say – for example, PC3000 has various “LEDs” – see: https://monami.hs-mittweida.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/13216/file/BA_49740_Marius-Zimmer.pdf (bases, page 23 – Figure 10)

Mark Berger
2 years ago
Reply to  EmmaDNA

We can look at this – but if the starts to click it is no longer recommended. Then the head is short of the failure or has already failed.

If it is still recognized in the BIOS, we could still save the data with some luck without swapping the head. If the head is already broken, it becomes significantly more expensive.

PS: I sent you a friendship request.

Michael941
2 years ago

Since the hard drive is broken you need to reinstall Windows when you have a new hard drive installed.