Bios Issues

[K&R]

I started laptop a few days ago, after it sat for a week, would not load windows after about a half an hour, then i ran the windows start up repair program, and it failed to fix the issues. so it gave me options to try and fix the issue, restore points, msdos command, reformat, ect. but without reformatting nothing seemed to work. went into the bios menu and made sure it was booting from hard drive, and to boot in safe mode but windows failed to start again. help please.....

[noknojon]

Hi -

Please list the make/model , Operating system (XP Vista Win7) , any antivirus / firewall -

Thank You -

[K&R]

Hi -

Please list the make/model , Operating system (XP Vista Win7) , any antivirus / firewall -

Thank You -

Hp pavilion DV7 notebook pc

vista

avg

and not sure about firewall could be avg or just the windows one

I ran some tests and now have a new error message

as reads {1720 - smart hard drive detects imminent failure (failing attr:01) back up contents of the hard drive and run HDD self test in F10 set up} ...... not sure how I can back up hard drive?

[MAM]

Hello, only a Idea nothing matter.

How old is your BIOS Baterie ?

In this worst case please replace it, with a new one.

But i think that is a "bad" advice to solve your problem.

Please wait for nother helping hand, to figured out your problem, be patient.

MAM

[MAM]

@ K&R

Try this one, HWiNFO

[TrustAM]

{1720 - smart hard drive detects imminent failure (failing attr:01) back up contents of the hard drive and run HDD self test in F10 set up}

Sounds like SMART disk technology is telling you your drive is about to die - which means new h/d time

Backup any files you have created - pictures, documents etc and save them to USB / CD / DVD

Buy a new HD and if you are confident on doing things yourself and have recovery disks or windows vista oem then i suggest install windows on the new drive

[TrustAM]

Sounds like SMART disk technology is telling you your drive is about to die - which means new h/d time

Backup any files you have created - pictures, documents etc and save them to USB / CD / DVD

Buy a new HD and if you are confident on doing things yourself and have recovery disks or windows vista oem then i suggest install windows on the new drive

**cant find edit function**

If you cant bear to loose all progs etc you may be able to 'clone' the h/d onto a new one, someone else may suggest software to do that,

(i have used acronis v10 before on a SATA and a IDE drive on a desktop pc, without problems but i have never done it with a laptop)

It may be a lot of work but I personally prefer a clean install on a new h/d

[K&R]

thanks all for the help and advice. now is there a way to back up my files from the bios section? mostly looking at all my e-mails in office outlook.