I have an Asus K52N-BGR5 laptop running Windows 7 that sat shut down for two weeks, and the first time I powered it up again, the hard drive won't boot. The drive certainly powers up, and I even get some Windows pre-loading (the four colorful windows merge together and I get a progress bar on the bottom stating that Windows is loading files), but then I get an error dialog box with the title "AI Recovery" that goes on to state "No hard drive has been detected for recovery. The recovery process will not continue. The system will now power off." The laptop worked just fine before; I have no clue what happened.
I took the laptop apart and made sure the drive was firmly affixed; no luck. I also tried booting from my backup disks but no luck there either (I also tried a friend's Windows 7 disk although I'm not certain if it was a good copy). I decided to buy an adapter so I could plug n' play the drive through a USB cable to another computer. Here's where it gets interesting: the drive powers up and the new computer will recognize the new hardware and say it's ready to use. It shows up in the device manager under both disk drives and as a USB mass storage device. Yet, I still cannot access the drive whatsoever (and it shows drivers up to date and troubleshooting says all is working fine). The closest I have seem to come was the chance to format the drive, which I attempted, only to get an error message that the drive was unable to format at the end of the process.
What's a bit more curious is that I have an older laptop hard drive (Gateway T-6859u that runs on Vista) that also worked. When I insert that into the Asus, I get the same response. Ditto for when I use the adapter to attach it to a working computer.
Finally, I have an old desktop hard drive that also worked prior to time in the closet. I tried the adapter there, and again, all the same results (and the master jumper is on this one).
Sorry for the long post; just trying to provide as much info as possible. As noted, I am willing to reformat, but I would love to grab the files first if possible. Any recommendations are super appreciated!
I took the laptop apart and made sure the drive was firmly affixed; no luck. I also tried booting from my backup disks but no luck there either (I also tried a friend's Windows 7 disk although I'm not certain if it was a good copy). I decided to buy an adapter so I could plug n' play the drive through a USB cable to another computer. Here's where it gets interesting: the drive powers up and the new computer will recognize the new hardware and say it's ready to use. It shows up in the device manager under both disk drives and as a USB mass storage device. Yet, I still cannot access the drive whatsoever (and it shows drivers up to date and troubleshooting says all is working fine). The closest I have seem to come was the chance to format the drive, which I attempted, only to get an error message that the drive was unable to format at the end of the process.
What's a bit more curious is that I have an older laptop hard drive (Gateway T-6859u that runs on Vista) that also worked. When I insert that into the Asus, I get the same response. Ditto for when I use the adapter to attach it to a working computer.
Finally, I have an old desktop hard drive that also worked prior to time in the closet. I tried the adapter there, and again, all the same results (and the master jumper is on this one).
Sorry for the long post; just trying to provide as much info as possible. As noted, I am willing to reformat, but I would love to grab the files first if possible. Any recommendations are super appreciated!