Author Topic: Power failure during repair: Laptop not booting (Read 51714 times)

Boggin · « **Reply #50 on:** February 09, 2017, 08:02:54 am »

Hmm...

Can you boot up with the USB again and navigate to the options for Startup Repair.

I don't have much faith in this but give it a try to see what it reports.

You can run this up to three times if at first unsuccessful.

amf · « **Reply #51 on:** February 12, 2017, 10:54:49 am »

Was away, but after 4 attempts Startup Repair could not fix the issue...

Boggin · « **Reply #52 on:** February 12, 2017, 02:17:02 pm »

Now that you can use a cmd prompt, enter bcdedit |find "osdevice" then enter chkdsk x: /f where x is your partition letter and see what that reports.

That is a Pipe symbol before find and is the uppercase of \

When the chkdsk completes, ignore the error 50 as that just means it is unable to create a wininit log in Event Viewer.

amf · « **Reply #53 on:** February 13, 2017, 02:25:03 am »

OK, Hope I did everything correct? See images please:

Boggin · « **Reply #54 on:** February 13, 2017, 02:33:28 am »

In the first pic you have made a typo - it should be bcdedit - you've entered bcedit but the rest look alarming.

Run the bcdedit |find "osdevice" cmd again and if it still gives the partition letter as C:, run chkdsk c: /r this time.

amf · « **Reply #55 on:** February 13, 2017, 02:58:53 am »

That's the messages

Boggin · « **Reply #56 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:03:36 am »

Enter y but when you run that cmd from outside of Windows it doesn't have to dismount first.

Let me know if entering y just takes you back to the cmd prompt.

amf · « **Reply #57 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:06:42 am »

Volume dismounted. All opened handles to this handle are now invalide.
Examining basic file system structure ...
Progress etc etc etc

Boggin · « **Reply #58 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:08:39 am »

Okay - let's see if there's any improvement on its last report.

amf · « **Reply #59 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:13:24 am »

Finding unreadable segments. ETA 512:20:54

Boggin · « **Reply #60 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:20:14 am »

It sounds like that power outage has taken out your HDD - which wouldn't normally happen unless there was a spike in the voltage before it went out.

When the power goes down and you have a battery installed, that should take over seamlessly so there's no disruption to your running.

Are you able to create a SeaTools for DOS disk to boot up with it which will check out your HDD.

http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/seatools/seatools-dos-master/

amf · « **Reply #61 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:37:05 am »

I saw it's a Samsung HDD, burt will try the seatools thing.

Must I wait until this checkdisk is eventaully finished?

Boggin · « **Reply #62 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:37:46 am »

What is it stuck on ?

amf · « **Reply #63 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:45:48 am »

411017 of 1129728 Stage 36% Total 0% ETA: 999:00:00

Boggin · « **Reply #64 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:49:13 am »

If it's still running then let it complete - a /r repair can take a while to complete but pressing CTRL+c will cancel the operation.

amf · « **Reply #65 on:** February 13, 2017, 03:55:55 am »

Link appears to be down

Boggin · « **Reply #66 on:** February 13, 2017, 04:00:38 am »

What link ?

amf · « **Reply #67 on:** February 13, 2017, 04:01:21 am »

Seagate - when you click on download not working

Boggin · « **Reply #68 on:** February 13, 2017, 04:08:09 am »

Same for me.

There's a link in this fuller tutorial which works - http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/201271en

EDIT - You can use ImgBurn to create a bootable disk http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/imgburn.html

amf · « **Reply #69 on:** February 13, 2017, 04:57:24 am »

It's only at 45%, so it will take ages still...

Boggin · « **Reply #70 on:** February 13, 2017, 05:01:02 am »

Is that the SeaTools for DOS disk scanning ?

Are you running the Short or the Long test ?

amf · « **Reply #71 on:** February 13, 2017, 05:18:31 am »

Nope, the last scandisk

amf · « **Reply #72 on:** February 13, 2017, 05:20:03 am »

Sorry, I mean the last chkdsk!

Pressed Ctrl C now

Boggin · « **Reply #73 on:** February 13, 2017, 05:21:29 am »

I was going to say, "Leave that running if it has progressed from the 45%" until I was notified of your last reply in cancelling it.

amf · « **Reply #74 on:** February 13, 2017, 05:23:24 am »

Ctrl+C not stopping the chkdsk...