I have a asus netbook that will not boot from the hdd. I will go to the windows splash screen then just get caught in a loop from the splash screen to the reboot options screen. I have tried installing a known good hdd w/ windows installed and it does the same thing. What could be going on here? When installing the new/good hdd do I need to change settings anywhere in the bios or anything? It will not boot into safemode either. Please help.
If that is Vista or Windows 7 you can tap F8 continuously after pressing the power button until you see a screen with some options the first of which should be "repair Your Computer" and if you choose the "cmd" prompt and type in "chkdsk /r" and then hit "enter" on the keyboard, answer "Y" and "enter" when prompted the computer will have to reboot to do so and then restart. Checkdisk should bring it back to Windows.
I have ran chkdsk on the original hdd and still would not boot that is what prompted me to use my known good hdd and im still getting the same issue. The hdd that ive tried works fine as I can use it perfectly in my other laptop. So it makes me think that something is wrong the mobo or bios maybe?
Using the hard drive to try to boot up doesn't mean anything though, the hardware is different and no hard drive with Windows on it would boot for you that way. Have you tried installing Windows on another hard drive with a Windows disk.
Same answer you have to install Windows on the drive in the computer for it to work as all hardware is different. You will not be able to boot a hard drive with Windows installed from another system.
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