The other night I was working on my Gateway (model #MP80708) laptop, and the battery went down to the point where it just shut down on me. It was late at night, so I left it and the next day it wouldn’t boot. The machine is only a few months old.
First I tried copying the usual boot files from a working C:\ drive (boot.ini, ntldr, etc) onto a floppy, and trying to boot. No luck.
I’ve tried to boot from the Windows XP Pro CD, but it won’t recognize the hard drive. I’ve downloaded Gateway’s SATA driver (http://tinyurl.com/33e4me) and put them on a floppy – hit F6 to load them during the setup process. No luck.
Once when I was trying to get the System Recovery Console to boot, I got a blue screen with the following error:
KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
…blah blah… Stop: 0x0000007a
(0xE124F3F4,0xc000000E,0bbf8ed7dd,0x0x01d860)
Next, I opened the case to see if the hard drive was loose, took it out and re-seated it. No luck. Even popped it into another Gateway laptop, and it still wouldn’t boot. So the problem is definitely the hard drive.
Any suggestions about how to get the machine to boot again and get my data back?
Any help greatly appreciated!!