I have a Samsung NP300E4A-S0SEA with 1Tb internal Seagate HDD. All of a sudden, it stucked up at Samsung logo with F2 and F4 options. Could no longer boot to its OS Windows 7. Now, trying to press F4 hoping for a recovery but it’ll just say “please wait…” then for at least how many seconds, screen will just turn black with blinking cursor on the upperleftmost part of the screen (not blinking in a few seconds after). Again, trying to do another way by pressing F2. Yes, I could enter setup, hdd is detected, cdrom is detected. Defaults have been loaded, boot priority set to cdrom 1st then hdd 2nd, saved and reboot…inserting windows installation disc or any other disc such as the windows recovery disc that comes from the laptop pack when i first bought it. But it seems nothing has worked even almost all cd’s related to windows installation…all autorun.
Sorry, not really an expert on troubleshooting procedures. But since childhood, this is my first time to experience the problem. Now, writing and telling you this problem and asking you all to please help solve if you have any solutions. I have important files on the hdd which I haven’t back it up. By the way, I even bought an enclosure hoping to recover the important files inside the hddisk but of no avail. Does not detect the hdd…it only detects the enclosure.
Thank you and hope to hear from you.
http://www.seagate.com/support/down…
(The dos version as the windows version requires windows to be running on the drive being tested). It’s an .iso file you can burn to a cd and then boot from it. There’s a .pdf guide on that page too you can download if you need help.