Vista - Startup Recovery Disc Problem

Proto1Star · 06-05-2009

Hello, my friend's laptop came up with the unmountable boot volume BSOD recently and I've been trying to fix it. I followed the guide and booted the startup recovery disc, but all I'm getting is a black screen with a mouse arrow after it says it's loading, so I can't even get to the startup recovery option yet. Is there a reason it's not showing up?

Its a Dell Inspiron 1526 laptop with windows home 32bit.

**Brink** · 06-05-2009

Hello Proto1Star, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You might see if you can run the Dell Hard Drive Disk Self Test to see what it may report that may be helpful in finding out what if anything is wrong with the hard drive.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Proto1Star · 06-05-2009

ah, wasn't my computer so I didn't know dell had such a thing. turned out the hard drive is fried according to their error code report.

**Brink** · 06-05-2009

That's what I was afraid of. Sorry to hear that.

Luckily hard drives can be gotten pretty cheaply these days.

06-05-2009	#1 (permalink)
Proto1Star Vista Ultimate 32bit SP1 3 posts	Startup Recovery Disc Problem Hello, my friend's laptop came up with the unmountable boot volume BSOD recently and I've been trying to fix it. I followed the guide and booted the startup recovery disc, but all I'm getting is a black screen with a mouse arrow after it says it's loading, so I can't even get to the startup recovery option yet. Is there a reason it's not showing up? Its a Dell Inspiron 1526 laptop with windows home 32bit.
My System Specs

06-05-2009	#2 (permalink)
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 25,966 posts	Re: Startup Recovery Disc Problem Hello Proto1Star, and welcome to Vista Forums. You might see if you can run the Dell Hard Drive Disk Self Test to see what it may report that may be helpful in finding out what if anything is wrong with the hard drive. Hope this helps, Shawn
My System Specs

06-05-2009	#3 (permalink)
Proto1Star Vista Ultimate 32bit SP1 3 posts	Re: Startup Recovery Disc Problem ah, wasn't my computer so I didn't know dell had such a thing. turned out the hard drive is fried according to their error code report.
My System Specs

06-05-2009	#4 (permalink)
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 25,966 posts	Re: Startup Recovery Disc Problem That's what I was afraid of. Sorry to hear that. Luckily hard drives can be gotten pretty cheaply these days.
My System Specs

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