V570 dead hard drive and now cant boot past BIOS welcome screen
Bought my Lenovo laptop in December, 2011. My hard drive (750g Western Digital) died last week. I was able to save some of my files but recovery partition and everything else is gone. Hard drive is unreadable when I insert in another machine or using an external USB casing.
I have a spare hard drive but now when I install that and try to boot, laptop does not go beyond the Phoenix BIOS screen. I tried the CMOS battery reset action (unplugging the CMOS battery etc) but no luck. Tried booting then pressing F keys but it just says please wait and stays there.
Someone please help. I really liked this laptop and cant believe the hard drive conked out after only 6 months of use.
not encouraging. I'd certainly re-seat the RAM and even go as far as testing it with MemTest86, if you have more than one module test them individually for at lest 3 passes each - keep plenty of coffee or whatever at hand.
Pulling the CMOS should at least provoke a date and time error at post hopefully enabling you to then enter BIOS, it will also automatically select BIOS defaults for you - not a bad thing.
If all else fails I would put the original drive in the system and call service as OKR-MAN previously suggested, something is definitely not right.
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