If do not know what kind of HDD you have, I assume it is a normal HDD.
It is not important to know if it is a SSD or HDD to solve your problem, I was just curious , because the "Write Protect" is mysterious, how can a Drive get a "Write Protect" Lock, I am wondering very much.
Did you have seen and choose "Restart" from a Screen like this to enter the Safe Mode option?
Yipp, I got exactly that same screen. And I pressed restart as you said. It restarted and gave me inaccessible boot device? Could my harddisk be corrupt?
Well, If you can not Boot either in Safe Boot, I can not help you any further.
It would be the last chance to Boot in Safe from a USB or DVD, but I do not know if Win 7 would be suitable for that.
May be someone can help you better than I can at this point.
Sorry.
Ok, try this:
Pick Advanced option > Command Prompt
Enter the following commands
diskpart
lis dis
lis vol
exit
lis dis is shorthand for list disk - it will tell you if you have more than one disk installed
lis vol is shorthand for list volume - it lists the volumes it can see
I don't know how to help upload an image - I only occasionally use a mobile device.
Unfortunately this means that you have to type what you see - I don't need all of the text, just the relative info.
I struck the stuff you don't need to type and bolded the stuff I want to see (red is important)
DISKPART> lis dis
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 596 GB 130 GB
If there is an astersik in the GPT column - that is important - it tells me the way the disk was initialized (MBR or GPT)
DISKPART> lis vol
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 U DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 500 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 C 10 Boot NTFS Partition 40 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 3 D 10 Data NTFS Partition 10 GB Healthy
You can shorthand some of it
vol # for Volume #
NTFS for NTFS Partition
Sys for System
Using the above example, this should suffice in shorthand
vol 1 Sys NTFS 500 MB Sys
If the Status column is helathy, you can exclude that unless it is NOT healthy
What I'm looking for is the System and Boot information.
The size might matter, but I don't think so with the issue on your machine.
Any chance you could ask a friend to let you use their machine to create some utility disks?
These two would be very helpful to have (each fit on a CD):
MiniTool Free Bootable Partition Manager | Partition Wizard Bootable CD
This is the utility that will help the most ... it will at least allow you to look at the disks, partitions, and volumes.
How to create a Bitdefender Rescue CD
How to scan your computer with Bitdefender Rescue CD
There's also a file manager that might help
I managed to borrow a laptop from my neighbour here is a foto of what i get on my screen. Im trying to work out how to dor the rest.
is it also possible to download that program to a usb stick? and let it run from that?
or does it have to be a cd?
Okay, i burnt the two programms on a cd. not sure if ive done it right but they'r on the cd. and now?
by the way was i supposed to burn each program on a different cd?
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