FrostyNoire
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Windows freezes on the starting screen and I don't know how to fix it. First I would like to say this has happened before, both times I took my laptop with me to school and when I got there it would not start up. I sent it in to someone, I believe they just backed up my files and just wiped it, I'm not exactly sure though. I have no real way to contact them to ask what they did.
For what I've tried to do this time:
At first I tried to do a system repair and it came up with no problems beside saying something was wrong with my hard drive I believe. I tried googling the problem and nothing really came up so I then tried a few more things,
I tried to get into safe mode and while it did load up it then froze and I was unable to do anything.
Next I tried to do a system restore, this part took a good 6+hours, I had two spots to restore to but the first tries for each failed, the third time seemed like it went through but it froze on the completed screen instead of restarting like it should have. I eventually manually turned the laptop off and now I'm stuck at square one again.
My laptop came with Windows 7 pre-installed so I can't even try to just re-install it from a cd.
My laptop is from Lenovo, ideapad Y580.
Intel core i7
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660M (I believe this is the graphic card?)
Is there anything I can do? Will I need to replace the hard drive? (Is that possible for a laptop?) And if so, would it just be cheaper to get a new one? Since I've had this problem before and it was fixed, if only temporarily, I would like to try and do that myself instead of paying another $120 just for it to fail again. I really need my laptop working again for my school work, I'm currently using my very old one, and while I'm managing for now it's not going to last.
For what I've tried to do this time:
At first I tried to do a system repair and it came up with no problems beside saying something was wrong with my hard drive I believe. I tried googling the problem and nothing really came up so I then tried a few more things,
I tried to get into safe mode and while it did load up it then froze and I was unable to do anything.
Next I tried to do a system restore, this part took a good 6+hours, I had two spots to restore to but the first tries for each failed, the third time seemed like it went through but it froze on the completed screen instead of restarting like it should have. I eventually manually turned the laptop off and now I'm stuck at square one again.
My laptop came with Windows 7 pre-installed so I can't even try to just re-install it from a cd.
My laptop is from Lenovo, ideapad Y580.
Intel core i7
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660M (I believe this is the graphic card?)
Is there anything I can do? Will I need to replace the hard drive? (Is that possible for a laptop?) And if so, would it just be cheaper to get a new one? Since I've had this problem before and it was fixed, if only temporarily, I would like to try and do that myself instead of paying another $120 just for it to fail again. I really need my laptop working again for my school work, I'm currently using my very old one, and while I'm managing for now it's not going to last.