Satellite A500-19Q: Win 7 doesn't load - UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME

Hy everybody,
I'm working since 2 months with my new A500-19Q running Win 7 Home Premium 64bit.
Yesterday night the system has been regularly stopped with the windows "shut down" command.
Today, the machine doesn't load win 7 at all.
If I let the loading work, the system reaches the blue screen with "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME".
If I try to recover the system with the recovery dvd made some time ago by Toshiba Utility, the starts to load informations but after some hard drive work, it stop with black screen and the arrow cursor, but anything else.
I downloaded and burt the Windows 7 64bit Repair Disc, but as already sad, the system start loading but it doesn't get to the end.
So it seems impossible to proceed with "chkdsk /f" command.
What should I do finally?
thanks
Message was edited by: MikeB_2

Hi
The blinking cursor in the left upper corner means that something could be wrong with the HDD or the partition on the HDD.
I had such issue some years ago on my notebook and in my case the HDD died it was a head crash.
Anyway I think you should check if the HDD can be formatted using another disk
You could try an Linux live CD or something like that

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