Windows won't start up - Bad hard drive and/or Windows

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by billyo

thanks for you suggestion.i had to replaced the hardrive and its working fine now..just re-installed all os and all the drivers..didnt re-install hoster yet caused im waiting on the new laptop that i ordered , still using my back-up laptop..so now i have 3 laptops i might get hoster lite for the old one ..but anyway thanks to all who tried to help..

I have had problems like this from time to time. What I generaly do is
re-seat the cables to my hard drives. Sometimes what is really happening is just a loose connection so windows can not find your hard drive. It comes up and says something like it can't find the operating system or no bootable drive etc. but what is really happening is it can't find the drive because of the loose connection. I have done this many times. It might have something to do with moving the computer from place to place or from being in a cold place then moving to a warm place etc. Since I stopped using my home computer for the show computer. I have not had this problem. Your original drive may not be bad. It might be that all you need do is hook it back up.

See ya

gpayne