Sigh. Just got my Asus RoG laptop up and running with all my software in place. I left in in my office after doing a couple of things this morning, and unfortunately, my 3 year old went into the office and did 'something' to jack the computer up. When I walked into the office (several hours after I had left I had a blackscreen with only a message about a disk read error, press ctrl+alt+del to restart. I thought to myself, "Self, this is not a good thing." I tried to reboot to no avail (kept getting the same disk read error). So I tried booting in F9 mode, which also resulted in an error suggesting a hard drive, or disk drive error and citing a memcheck.exe file missing or corrupted. Here I am now, still not sure exactly what the hell my three year old did to blow this damn thing up. The strange thing is the recovery disks actually appear to be working at this point (I'm about half way through a full restore). I'm wondering if it is more likely that my hard drive is somehow trashed as the error messages suggested, or if it is more likely that my kid interrupted a configuration of a Windows Update or something that would screw up the boot procedures. Anyone have a thought?
One of three things: 1) your master boot record is corrupted 2) your hard drive is dead 3) your hard drive is unplugged. Probably the first one if recovery disk is loading stuff back
Interesting. The recovery is now apparently locked 3 discs into the process. No error message or anything. ASUS has its own recovery program, and after it prompted me to insert the 3rd disc I did so, and now it has been about 30 min with no movement on the progress bar and a message (that indicates it is beginning to read the DVD) that says "Resume restoring", and no further information. I think I shall have to contact the ASUS folks on this one. If it was the master boot record, then I think booting in F9 to restore the hidden partition should have worked, shouldn't it? Can't imagine the HD became unplugged, since it was working fine this morning and hasn't even moved. I'm not nearly as tech savvy as others here, but I think that given the fact that recovery has frozen while trying to rewrite the HDD it has to be a hard drive fail. Beyond that at this point the partitions are completely fucked up due to the frozen recovery anyway, so even if the HDD isn't toast its in a bad way. Fuck! Any other plausible explanation? The unit is still under the ASUS 2 year warranty. Does anyone know if they are decent about claims?