Hard drive failure?

Hello,

Yesterday I decided to reformat my laptop. I used the Asus recovery partition to bring it back to factory condition. I remember before the process takes about 2 hours to complete (via disc). I started it and it stayed at the "Recovering Now" message for about 6 hours.

I had no idea what to do and the fans in the laptop were working overtime. The casing in that area become pretty hot and I thought the computer froze. I decided to power off the laptop manually and try again. I tried the Partition method again and it cannot start the recovery process stating "Recovery not finished, try again".

I then try the CD method and while it does work to the "Recovering Now" screen it just hangs there for 5-6 hours just like the partition method.

I cannot boot into Windows and I cannot seem to reformat. Is my hard drive unrecoverable? If I do purchase another notebook drive, would the Asus Recovery work on it or would I have to purchase Windows and install it?

 

i had a similar issue on my X59sr-a1, turns out I had an micro SD adapter in the card reader with no sd card in it and once I removed it things returned to normal, I even bought a new HDD... just make nothing is plugged into the laptop when you try the restore again with just the power cable connected

 

I will try that out but I have to keep my external LCD plugged in as my laptop screen isn't working properly.

 

That doesn't seem to be working.... it's still hanging at the "Recovering now" message (no peripheral attached other than power). Granted I only waited 1:30 hours since but I think this message shall remain.

Does anyone have any ideas?

This Asus laptop is giving me a lot more problems than its even worth. First my graphics card fails (luckily it was fixed under warranty), now my LCD gets busted due to the cracked hinge and top casing, AND the hdd seemingly fails during Recovery (AND i am no longer under warranty)!

 

If you can, try and format your hard drive before reinstalling the OS. If you're not able to do that during the recovery process, you may need to pop your HDD into an external enclosure and format it with another computer first.

 

Solved: I was wondering why this was happening now so I compared my previous reformat to this one. I realized the ONLY difference between now and then was a 2GB stick of RAM I installed. I pulled that out and popped in the old stick and voila! Recovery proceeded as normal.

In the end: The Recovery Disc success may need the factory hardware in order to return to factory settings

 

You should give that RAM stick several passess of Memtest86+.