Windows 7 not booting

Hi, I've got a c660/c660d laptop and the windows doesn't boot. I've tried everything even pressing power on plus the zero key. It always comes back to launch repair. But if I do that a black screen with an arrow comes out. I've got system recovery disc 1 &2 but still it doesn't work. Please help me.

Are you able to see the BIOS screen?
Do you seen the Windows LOGO at all?
On the black screen, are there any error numbers?
Does it shut off by itself?
Also the complete model number helps.
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Product: HP G72-110SA
OS: Win7
two days ago, I was installing updates on my computer and when it was about to restart, it froze. After waiting for 10 minutes, I had to turn it off by pressing the off button. From then on, the computer turns on but shows a message "Boot device not found".
I have tried all the BIOS tests that I could find on the net for the hard disk, eg: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01443465&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=uk&dlc=en&la...
This gives me a "Hard disk not exist" error. I tried resetting the BIOS, that didn't work. I tried taking out and putting back in the battery, the memory and the hard disk. Still no luck.
I then booted ubuntu from cd on the computer. It works just fine, including the internet etc EXCEPT the HDD is still not detected.
I had some pretty important stuff and no back up, so would appreciate if someone can help me get back the data. If not, even if I know its just a HDD failure and not a motherboard/BIOS problem, it will be a relief as its probably fixable.
Thanks

Hi there ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome! This is a great site to get answers and ask questions. I would be happy to assist you. As there are many models of HP Notebooks, I would need the model number. (How Do I Find My Model Number or Product Number?) When I went to www.hp.com/go/techcenter/startup, it gave me documentation and troubleshooting steps to follow. One of the documents it provided is called Hard Disk Error Displays before the Computer Starts. NOTE: I recommend at this point you make an immediate backup of all important data and files. Here are instructions on how to Backing Up Your Files (Windows 8). Please follow the troubleshooting steps provided, re-post with the results of the troubleshooting in detail. Thank you.

Windows not booting after Winclone

Hi Guys,
I have a MBP and I have just installed a new 1TB HD. I successfully cloned the osx drive and restored it and all aplications are working fine. I then bought winclone. Cloned the boot camp and restored it. When I tried to boot into windows it said there is a boot failure. Hardware has changed. Im running windows & pro.
I have followed every thep outlined. I have gone from a 300 to 700gb partition from windows. As far as I understand thats what winclone does. Does anyone have any advice?
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Warren

Haviing the same processor socket would sortof help limit to differences in motherboard, but moving to a different motherboard is always (was) a disaster 95% of the time.
There are commercial programs to take a windows image, on a Windows system! and adjust the drivers when importing a new Windows image.
Tools for importing physical and virtual back and forth, but with Windows already present.
And with Macs by "same processor family" that is also likely to be safer.
Sounds like a lot of really good work went into WinClone in the end.
It was so slow, and during backup image creation unlike say Paragon and Acronis or Ghost, that is when you also scan for and detect system errors, bad sectors being read and insure you have and know you have a good image - and not when you go to restore. Though a sucessful restore is the best "test."
Would be nice if the backup was incremental.
If all you have is core Windows OS then it will be under 30GB so small (Blue-Ray would be nice here).
Now to see how soon WinClone supports Windows 8 RC which will be harder, based on changes in Windows system extra partitions and that even Paragon is not certified to work and listed as "incompatible."

Windows not booting after install (iSCSI)

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I am attempting to boot a host over iSCSI but have run into a brick wall trying to get my host to boot after successfull install of the OS.
Without changing the service profile I am able to install and boot VMWare ESX fine. Windows just does not seem to boot.
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Now it gets even stranger. As suspected the configuration is correct as I now have it booting into windows.
The strange part is, all was working ok until I applied all current updates, then it went into windows recovery mode and can't find my partition for recovery (only option I have is to reboot)
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Re-installed again, but this time I released the windows boot media from the virtual CDROM drive while it was rebooting.
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I/O Error leads to Windows not booting up.

I'm not too computer savvy or anything like that but I'll try to explain my situation to the best of my extent.
This just started happening about 25 minutes ago. I first noticed something was wrong while I was downloading some stuff, utorrent would pop up with an error, saying there was some sort of "I/O Error" and then, I noticed that videos on youtube would kind of lag but they wouldn't stop, they'd make like a buzzing noise.
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Yvan Koenig has said he has some AppleWorks 5 files fail to open in AppleWorks 6 with the I/O error. I've never had a problem opening any AppleWorks 5 files whether they were created on a Mac or PC.
Are you sure that some of these files aren't ClarisWorks 4 or earlier files? AppleWorks 6.2.9 (the current version) can't open all ClarisWorks 4 or earlier files & gives an I/O error. There doesn't appear to be a way to predict which files will cause problems. I've had it happen & not happen with all AppleWorks file types. These files can be opened by any other version of AppleWorks 6.
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First step, delete the AppleWorks 6 preferences as they may be corrupt, particularly the translator cache. See my user tip, AppleWorks has stopped working correctly, for more info.
Did you move these files from one Mac to another using a USB flash drive or other removable device? If the device is PC-formatted, some information in the files may have been lost in the transfer. Another user tip addresses this problem - AppleWorks 6 won't open my AW 5 files.
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2009 Mac Pro will not boot up under Windows

I have an Early 2009 Mac Pro system (Mac Pro 4,1) and I've had this system for 3 years already and have been working under OS X with this system ever since I purchased it.
However, when I tried to boot off my Windows disk, something very interesting happens. The Mac Pro WILL NOT boot up off the Windows disk or a known working Windows partition if two monitors are connected. Upon holding down the option key and selecting the Windows partition, I will get a black screen on one monitor (the one connected via Mini Displayport) and the other screen receives no signal and will enter standby and the system is halted. It does not respond to keystrokes, there is no hard drive activity, no measured power increase on the UPS, no apparent network activity, nothing. The only way to exit this scenario (from what I can tell) is to power off the machine, disconnect the display on DVI, power on the machine again, select the Windows partition wait for the system to reach the login window and reconnect the DVI monitor (at which time Windows recognizes it immediately and the system works fine again).
My question to the community is, does anybody know why this is happening and is there a known fix for this? Quite frankly, having to disconnect a monitor just to restart is very tedious and frustrating.
I have two Samsung P2350 monitors attached to an ATI Radeon HD 4870 (512MB, from Apple). One is monitor is connected via directly DVI and the other is using a Mini Displayport to DVI adapter. Both monitors work fine under OS X with no issue. At first, I thought that this may be a driver issue on the Windows side and after installing all the latest updates and drivers the issue is still apparent. From what I can tell, this doesn't seem like a software issue but rather a firmware or EFI issue as this happens before Windows even loads.
If anyone knows of a fix or what to do in this situation, or if you are also having this issue, I would love to hear your input!
Thank you!
For the record, I am running all the latest software builds on the OS X side (10.7.4, not that it would really matter at this point). I have also disconnected all unnecessary equipment in a trial and error scenario but the results are still the same.
The system passes all ASD testing.
The full specification of the computer and all connected equipment are as follows:
2009 Mac Pro (4,1) 8-Core
2x Intel Xeon Nehalem 2.66GHz Quad-Core CPUs
16GB DDR3 ECC 1066MHz RAM (Apple Branded)
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4x 2TB WD Black Hard drives for storage.
Two Samsung P2350 Monitors connected via DVI. (One using a Mini Displayport to DVI adapter).

In Windows I am using the latest (12.4) Catalyst Software Suite, 64 bit of course, downloaded directly from AMD's site after installing the drivers from Boot Camp.
As for installing Windows I used an original (not burned) installation media (Disk is in a pristine condition). And yes, Windows is fine, the problem just seems to be getting the system to boot up Windows with that second monitor. However if the "problem monitor" is disconnected the system boots fine 100% of the time and connecting it later after booting the system will still operate properly.
For the sake of arguement I swapped monitor cables and connected the "second" monitor to the mini displayport adapter to verify that it wasn't a cabling issue and I'm still yielding the same issues.
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You would think that Apple would try to find a fix for this, especially considering the caliber of this machine.

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let it sit for about 30 min and still got nothing
I then did a "hard shutdown(just pressed power button till it turned off the computer)"
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/usbcoreblog/archive/2013/10/19/help-after-installing-windows-8-1-the-superspeed-ports-of-my-asus-system-don-t-work.aspx
Link courtesy Darrell Gorter [MSFT] found here
"Windows 8 Keyboard and mouse not working"
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprohardware/thread/06e9b341-0619-4085-acbf-e2f0133ca428?outputAs=rss
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I can not use my mouse or keyboard when I am trying to install windows via boot camp

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Starting a couple of days ago my mouse and keyboard stopped working suddenly.
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I know this question came up before, but I have being trying to fix this for many days now, without luck and I feel I need some new ideas...
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My Windows 8.1 is not booting, and gets trapped in cycle of Boot Manager until I tell the UEFI to boot from disk or USB
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Repair Action Boot Config Data Store Repair à Failed (err code 0x2)
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Any other ideas? Please help !!!!
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Hello Kermit_70,
What is your current situation?
Please try the suggestion as aw00t mentioned.
Additionally, please try to use Automatic Repair to fix problems that keep Windows from loading.
For more information, please take a look at the following article.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2269-system-recovery-options-boot-windows-8-a.html
Please note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Best regards,
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Windows 8 will not boot

Windows 8 will not boot, gives Bad_System_Config_Info error.
It will not boot from disk, let me refresh, or let me reset my windows system.
A couple of times i have gotten windows to boot from the disk and it asks if i want to instal windows 8 or there is a tab to repair my computer.
Should i just go ahead and click instal windows 8, and then backup that fresh instal with my backup drive?
Or will this complicate the problem?.........
I am running OS X 10.8.3 Macbook pro retina
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Wow, how about you guys just answer the dude's question instead of posting useless garbage. thanks for wasting everyone's time.
The only way I know of fixing this right now is unfortunately by doing a clean install. Thats not to say however that you won't run into the same problem down the road. To be honest, even tho Templeton's answer was useless, he's right. Seven is currently way more stable.

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