G73 not showing boot drive

My G73JH crashed earlier today and now it can't seem to find the boot HDD

If I try to boot I get this message:

"Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

When I go to the setup utility it shows one 500Gb HDD in boot position 1 and the DVD in boot position 2 but if I go see the boot options and the SATA configuration it only shows the DVD in sata port 1 and the HDD on port 4. There is no trace of the other HDD and all the other ports are empty.



Starting to freak out a little here.

Reply 1 : G73 not showing boot drive

Get a w7 disc and run startup repair, see: LEGAL Windows 7 Download Links (Just like Vista before!!!)



How To Easily Repair Windows 7 Boot Problems Using Startup Repair

Reply 2 : G73 not showing boot drive

Get any disk read error messages? I just had to replace one of the stock segates drives in mine. Wasnt being found. Turned out to be 16x bad blocks and corrupt MBR on my boot drive. Ordered a momentus from newegg and shes running new again. Using the old drive for data now.

Reply 3 : G73 not showing boot drive

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Originally Posted by kanagye Get any disk read error messages? I just had to replace one of the stock segates drives in mine. Wasnt being found. Turned out to be 16x bad blocks and corrupt MBR on my boot drive. Ordered a momentus from newegg and shes running new again. Using the old drive for data now.

It came as a surprise. I was scanning something from a USB scanner and while the data was transfering, I got impatient and moved a 1Mb file from one folder to another at the same time. Crash of the century, everything froze, it has been refusing to boot since then. I downloaded the Win7 DVD from ALLurGroceries's link and tried it with a USB boot drive but all I got was a flashing white underscore on a black screen. I'm trying another boot at the moment. I'll probably check for a new drive online this weekend if I'm still not booting.



My G73JH has been virtually trouble free since I got it back in June 2010.... until today.

Reply 4 : G73 not showing boot drive

Hm if you're getting a flashing underscore it probably isn't set up right... maybe try it on a different computer to see if you can at least boot the windows 7 installer. If not try again, or just burn a DVD.

Reply 5 : G73 not showing boot drive

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Originally Posted by ALLurGroceries Hm if you're getting a flashing underscore it probably isn't set up right... maybe try it on a different computer to see if you can at least boot the windows 7 installer. If not try again, or just burn a DVD.

The 2nd attempt worked. It's booting Win7 Installer via the USB drive.

I ran the Startup Repairs (which didn't see my windows partition) but when trying to boot without the USB drive the computer still gives me the same error message. If I tried to load drivers manually while in the Startup Repair my C drive is missing completly and my second HDD has become the C drive which seams to point to a dead HDD.



This is the Startup Repair log:

Root cause found

This partition table does not have a valid system partition

repair action: partition table repair

result: completed successfully, error code = 0x0

time taken: 1451ms



I ran the Startup Repair 3 times and the log is the same every time, which makes sens since there is no WIndows installed on what is now considered the C drive.

Reply 6 : G73 not showing boot drive

You can try the suggestion here:

Invalid system partition - Windows 7 Forums



Then you will need to run the boot repair again, or follow this post:

Invalid system partition - Page 2 - Windows 7 Forums

Reply 7 : G73 not showing boot drive

Reset BIOS settings? Try putting the HDD in the other bay? (thus checking to see if its the SATA port's issue).

Reply 8 : G73 not showing boot drive

manualy set boot priority on hdd 0 , than reflash BIOS

Reply 9 : G73 not showing boot drive

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Originally Posted by frosty5689 Reset BIOS settings? Try putting the HDD in the other bay? (thus checking to see if its the SATA port's issue).

I'll swap the 2 HDDs during my lunch hour to test the sata port.



*EDIT*

Sata port working fine.

switched the HDDs and the issue remains the same

It's starting more and more to look like a fried HDD.



Weird thing... Both HDD are identical but they are not the same color. One is dark blue and the other is more greenish.... same part number though so probably nothing.