T410 Won't Boot/Recognize HD After a Blue Screen

Hello, Few days ago, while i have been installing partition magic (during the install - preior to using the utility) i got a blue screen that repeated itself everytime i tried to boot. I have used a utility that comes with windows 7 boot disc, that tried to solve "boot problem". eventually i did not get a blue screen anymore - though now i can't find the HD in the HDs list. I tryied To Run HD Test from the BIOS but it took an hour and it still was 0%. Is that enough to determine my HD is gone? or is there still a way to revive it?(I dont need to restore all the data, i just want to be able to install windows on it) Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi, When Windows won't recognize a disk, I sometimes use a Linux based OS to identify and format disk, since it sometimes is a bit more "don't care" mode than windows utilities. You could try to run "Ubuntu Live" from a bootable USB:http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/try-ubuntu-before-you-install 1. Download the ISO:http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop 2. Install the ISO on an USB:https://rufus.akeo.ie/ 3. Boot from USB: When your PC starts, Press F12 and choose the USB you just made bootable in step 2. 4. Use the "Try Ubuntu" utility 5. Open the program: gparted (a disk partition program) 6. See if it can find the HDD, and if it can, try to delete all partitions. Edit: Apply the deletion and then shutdown, and try to install windows again with recovery cds or iso image.

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