Hi.
A few hours ago, I was playing Civ 5, with half the map having declared war on me a couple of turns ago. We then had a power cut, and unfortunately my laptop's batteries weren't connected at the time. Anyway, this is usually no cause of alarm, so i waited until the power came back on, reconnected the battery and mains and tuned on the laptop.
First, a series of electronic beeps sounded, roughly 20 or so. The computer then booted to EFI/BIOS. While poking around to see if anything obvious was wrong, it appeared that the boot list was empty of both Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10.
Not knowing what else to do, and after a couple of restarts, I plugged in the Win 8 recovery USB I had. The laptop booted into the Win 8 recovery mode successfully. I tried using Refresh/Reset, but both comands came up with words to the effect of 'your hard drive is locked'. So I dove into the command line to see what was up. My results can be seen here:
For anyone who cannot see the image, I went into DISKPART, and listed the disks and partitions. Only one disk came up with one partition; the USB stick.
tl;dr - After a power cut, Windows no longer recognizes my hard drive.
Anyone have any suggestions? It's kind of urgent, since I'm off to uni on Friday. I've ordered a new hdd just in case, and I'm in the process of setting up a Linux LiveUSB for further troubleshooting. My BIOS is by AMI, and there is no beep code for more than 11 beeps.
Help me techno-literate Escapists, you're my only hope.
EDIT: Ok, so the LiveUSB isn't working. I've found an old XP hdd in a usb adapter, so I'm giving it a go.
EDIT 2: Giving AWAR's suggestion a try. XP hdd did nothing. Also, if anyone suggests a solution that works and isn't along the lines of reinstalling Windows, I'll give you £10 somehow.
EDIT 3: After ringing ASUS support, the problem is fortunately covered by the warranty, so I'll hopefully have a fixed laptop in a fortnight or so. Massive embuggerance, given uni and everything, but should be manageable. Big thanks to all who posted suggestions.
A few hours ago, I was playing Civ 5, with half the map having declared war on me a couple of turns ago. We then had a power cut, and unfortunately my laptop's batteries weren't connected at the time. Anyway, this is usually no cause of alarm, so i waited until the power came back on, reconnected the battery and mains and tuned on the laptop.
First, a series of electronic beeps sounded, roughly 20 or so. The computer then booted to EFI/BIOS. While poking around to see if anything obvious was wrong, it appeared that the boot list was empty of both Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10.
Not knowing what else to do, and after a couple of restarts, I plugged in the Win 8 recovery USB I had. The laptop booted into the Win 8 recovery mode successfully. I tried using Refresh/Reset, but both comands came up with words to the effect of 'your hard drive is locked'. So I dove into the command line to see what was up. My results can be seen here:
For anyone who cannot see the image, I went into DISKPART, and listed the disks and partitions. Only one disk came up with one partition; the USB stick.
tl;dr - After a power cut, Windows no longer recognizes my hard drive.
Anyone have any suggestions? It's kind of urgent, since I'm off to uni on Friday. I've ordered a new hdd just in case, and I'm in the process of setting up a Linux LiveUSB for further troubleshooting. My BIOS is by AMI, and there is no beep code for more than 11 beeps.
Help me techno-literate Escapists, you're my only hope.
EDIT: Ok, so the LiveUSB isn't working. I've found an old XP hdd in a usb adapter, so I'm giving it a go.
EDIT 2: Giving AWAR's suggestion a try. XP hdd did nothing. Also, if anyone suggests a solution that works and isn't along the lines of reinstalling Windows, I'll give you £10 somehow.
EDIT 3: After ringing ASUS support, the problem is fortunately covered by the warranty, so I'll hopefully have a fixed laptop in a fortnight or so. Massive embuggerance, given uni and everything, but should be manageable. Big thanks to all who posted suggestions.
