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Mar 11, 2016 at 05:45 AM
Mar 11, 2016 at 05:45 AM
Hi Omairyounus,
I hate to be the beare of bad news, but it looks like your hard drive has failed. If you can enter the BIOS screen and see if a hard drive is recognized, then you might have a chance. If it is not recognized then it is possible the power or data cable have become dislodged from the drive. It may be worth checking this - and even swapping the power cable for another one (your power supply will probably have some unused ones, but if not swap it for the one from the DVD drive).
If the drive is detected in BOIS then you might be able to get into the recovery partition, but we would need to know the exact make and model of your machine to help with that. Restoring your machine that way could cause you to lose your data.
The final option is to boot your machine with a live DVD like a Hirens boot disk. This might be able to show you the files you have on your hard drive and allow you to back them up.
The final possibility is that the machine has been encrypted and tols to display this screen on boot so as to stop unauthorized access, but this would be an extremely rare thing to happen and almost certainly not the case. But if you have any friends up for a practical joke and a few hours to play, then its a possibility.
Im afraid, though, that with the history of the slowness, the hard drive recovery now not showing when it did before, and this message on the screen, I fear your drive is dead and you will need a new one and reinstall everything.
Good luck with this. Please do let me know how you get on.
I hate to be the beare of bad news, but it looks like your hard drive has failed. If you can enter the BIOS screen and see if a hard drive is recognized, then you might have a chance. If it is not recognized then it is possible the power or data cable have become dislodged from the drive. It may be worth checking this - and even swapping the power cable for another one (your power supply will probably have some unused ones, but if not swap it for the one from the DVD drive).
If the drive is detected in BOIS then you might be able to get into the recovery partition, but we would need to know the exact make and model of your machine to help with that. Restoring your machine that way could cause you to lose your data.
The final option is to boot your machine with a live DVD like a Hirens boot disk. This might be able to show you the files you have on your hard drive and allow you to back them up.
The final possibility is that the machine has been encrypted and tols to display this screen on boot so as to stop unauthorized access, but this would be an extremely rare thing to happen and almost certainly not the case. But if you have any friends up for a practical joke and a few hours to play, then its a possibility.
Im afraid, though, that with the history of the slowness, the hard drive recovery now not showing when it did before, and this message on the screen, I fear your drive is dead and you will need a new one and reinstall everything.
Good luck with this. Please do let me know how you get on.
Mar 11, 2016 at 06:05 AM
Mar 11, 2016 at 06:40 AM
If the above is the case, I would try to reinstall Windows 7 - you obviously have the installation disk or you couldn't have done this before. If you need Windows 10, then this is a free upgrade at the moment for all Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines. You would need to install Windows 7 as a "Custom" install and you will lose any data you already have.
If you need these files, you might be able to save them by using the Hirens DVD I mentioned earlier.
I still feel that the slowness of the machine could be caused by a hard drive failure. When it is all up and running try a hard drive test as soon as possible just to allay my fears.
Good luck. Please let me know how you get on.