HP Notebook 6735s boot up error BSOD

robmar0se

As a matter of interest only, does yr laptop now recognise the dvd drive?

YorkshireBoy

robmar0se wrote: »

As a matter of interest only, does yr laptop now recognise the dvd drive?

No it doesn't...at least not in BIOS. F9 only shows the 3 options I reported earlier in the thread.

However, the DVD drive is being recognised as Drive E in 'My Computer' within windows and I was also using it to rip some music last night.

Maybe it's not meant to be there? Strangely though, and as I said earlier, when my mate plugged in his USB-DVD in yesterday it saw that?

craigster

I'm sure that some internal dvd drives are seen in the BIOS as usb-dvd. In a similar way that I've seen internal wifi cards marked as USB.
Bear in mind that, depending on what is wrong, the scan you did probably won't have fixed the underlying issue that the drive had, but will probably just have marked the bad sectors as unusable. Have a look at this page which explains some of this: http://www.datarecovery.com.sg/data_recovery/bad_sector_on_hard_disk.htm
Whatever you do, keep your laptop backed up.

YorkshireBoy

craigster wrote: »

I'm sure that some internal dvd drives are seen in the BIOS as usb-dvd.

It's in the boot order in F10 but not in F9.

Bear in mind that, depending on what is wrong, the scan you did probably won't have fixed the underlying issue that the drive had, but will probably just have marked the bad sectors as unusable.

The HDD check I did within BIOS (which took over 2 hours) did not report any errors. Are you saying that the fix my mate's laptop did would have simply repaired bad sectors and not notified me?

Whatever you do, keep your laptop backed up.

Mate suggested I buy a 500gB external USB drive and recommended a Hitachi unit (from Tesco!) for around £40 but I should probably start another thread for that.

I also need to buy a new battery for this laptop, but again asking for supplier recommendations (and ones to avoid!) is probably for another thread.

craigster

The HDD check I did within BIOS (which took over 2 hours) did not report any errors. Are you saying that the fix my mate's laptop did would have simply repaired bad sectors and not notified me?

I'm not 100% sure what you did when you say that you put your hard drive in your friend's computer and it fixed the problem. Did you get it to boot into Windows and perhaps use checkdisk? As per the screen shots in the link. Or did you somehow scan it using a bootable cd/BIOS? I know that if you have a S.M.A.R.T compliant drive it can replace a bad sector with a good sector, which some modern drives keep in reserve for such tasks, although the drive will appear error free if scanned. Maybe there was nothing wrong with your HD, although it seemed a good place to investigate given the symptoms you described. At the end of the day, you got it working again which is the main thing. Regardless, it's a good idea to have at least two copies on two separate media of stuff you don't want to lose. So any external hard drive is better than none.