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[help needed] Win7 BSOD into a "reboot and select proper device"

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Hi all! Happy New Years first of all! :)

We have a laptop with Win7 on it, it was playing a music CD when suddenly we got a BSOD and I told my gf to go reboot it so I didn't think I'd need to see the BSOD error message. But yes, after the reboot it started prompting me to select the correct drive and it wouldn't load. I went into BIOS to check if it sees the drive and it looked healthy, correct capacity, correct boot order (CD and then HDD, but I tried putting HDD first). After some tinkering I just booted Hiren's CD and went into Mini WinXP, opened Disk Management and saw this (before you look, the HDD of 500GB is split into 2 partitions of C and D drives):



So for some reason the main Windows C drive doesn't have a file system any longer and is 100% free. My question is if you guys think it's any way possible to restore that disk now? I thought I'd ask here before doing a reinstall of the OS because she had some important files on drive C. Thanks in advance!
 

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Can you boot without a cd
 

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You can try opening a command prompt and running chkdsk c: /r

Though I'd boot from the Windows 7 disc and do it from there, not from MiniXP. The version on the Win7 disc will be a lot newer and I've actually had more success with it than the XP version. This might not bring the computer back so it will boot, but it might at least get the C: back to a readable state so you can pull the needed files off of it through MiniXP.

Then I'd ditch the drive and replace it.
 
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Can you boot without a cd

I can't, I think I made it clear in the first post :p

You can try opening a command prompt and running chkdsk c: /r

Though I'd boot from the Windows 7 disc and do it from there, not from MiniXP. The version on the Win7 disc will be a lot newer and I've actually had more success with it than the XP version. This might not bring the computer back so it will boot, but it might at least get the C: back to a readable state so you can pull the needed files off of it through MiniXP.

Then I'd ditch the drive and replace it.

Ok thanks for the advice! I'd need to look for the Win7 installation DVD, didn't think it mattered what OS I booted from the disk, will try!
 
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