Acer Aspire One Notebook not booting. Tried lots of things

[TimW61]

Acer Aspire One Notebook AOD260 – No recovery or installation discs.
WDC wd2500bevt 22a23to HDD 250gb
2 partitions:
D Acer – Capacity 218 Gb NTFS
E Local Disk – 3.99 Gb Fat32


Hoping to find some help in getting this notebook to boot properly again.
My son decided to do a system restore (factory defaults). I have no idea what he did other than hand it to me and said ‘it’s gone weird’.

On boot up it shows a Winload.exe corrupt of missing error 0xc000000f, I tried alt+f10 but after 20mins it errors with 0x45d I/O device error.

I’ve created a multi bootable usb with Hiren's.BootCD.10.6.iso and windows-7-32-bit-repair-disc.iso. Mini XP shows the system seems to be present ie he didn’t format the drive!

The repair disc can’t repair it, it does not identify any OS. I have run it several times and it fails due to ‘Boot Manager Missing or Corrupt’.

I have no options via F8, no WindowsRE, safe mode etc, Boot Win7 only.

I tried Gparted just to view the partitions/volumes and the D Acer, dev/sda2 has ‘status not mounted’ if that’ relevant.

Following the google trail led me to bootrec & options which I followed from http/support.microsoft.com/kb/927392 however, as I was using the win7 repair facility on the usb rather than from WindowsRE I managed to mess the usb stick up and had to redo it. Not even sure it is a MBR type issue.

Any pointers??

Tim

 

[casper1973]

Since you already have a Hirens CD I would start by doing some hard drive diagnostics. 0x4dD I/O error basically means there was an error reading or writing to the hard drive. Doesn't necessarily mean your drive is failing but it's worthwhile to test anyway. I believe Hirens has a program called MHDD which I've used in the past and is pretty good at HDD diagnostics.

Assuming the hard drive passes, I would move on to doing a clean install of Windows. Forget the recovery partition and use a plain Windows DVD (or download from here http/www.techverse.net/download-windows-7-iso-x86-x64-microsofts-official-servers/).

During the installation delete all partitions so you have nothing but "Unallocated Space" before proceeding.


PS.
This is assuming you don't need any data from the laptop. DO NOT delete anything if you do.

Also keep in mind you will likely need to manually download/install drivers after the installation.

 

[TimW61]

Casper,

Thanks for that, I ran Western Digital Data Lifeguard from Hirens and the quick test found error 007 'Read Elements Fail' and the full media scan found error 0223 and fixed whatever that is. Re-booted the notebook tried alt+f10 and the erecovery facility did what it's supposed to do and the notebook is now up and running fine.
Thanks
Tim