Bios configuration for 15-g011st

[mech-eng]

Hello. Would someone please explain how I boot my Hp laptop, 15-g011st from CD/DVD Rom? There are three different part in "boot order section" so I am confused. One of the part's name is something like EFI.

Thank you.

[mech-eng]

Actually saying, My SD card has broken down. I need to recover my files in it. I have a chance to recover them with a linux live cd. Can I also recover them with "HP Recovery Manager"? 

Would someone please explain?

Thank you.

[Photoray002 · Accepted solution]

 Hello mech-eng

I'm not sure I understand why you would need to boot into linux to try to recover a bad SD card if Windows is working?

Is it the SD card or is the Card Reader not working?

Beyond that...  to boot from a live CD, If you cannot see the Live CD in Boot Options, you most likely need to disable Secure Boot and enable Legacy Support.

• In the Bios, go to System Configuration and arrow down to Boot Options.
• Now arrow down to Secure Boot and disable it.
• Enable Legacy Mode.
• F10 to save and exit.
• On reboot, you will be prompted to enter a code. It will not show as you type it in which is normal. It should boot up as normal.
• Reboot again and rapidly tap the Esc key during power-up. This will open a list of options called the Startup Menu.
• Look for Boot Device Options which should be F9.
• In the new menu, you should see your CD to boot from. If not, the CD might not be burned correctly or such.

[mech-eng]

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@Photoray002 wrote:

 Hello mech-eng

I'm not sure I understand why you would need to boot into linux to try to recover a bad SD card if Windows is working?

Is it the SD card or is the Card Reader not working?

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I tried it both in SD adapter and in a USB card reader plugged in that SD adapter. I do not know if the terms are correct I used here so for more clarification SD adapter is something we put sd card in it and then we plug that adapter to PC. According to some advices we can recover our data via a linux live cd. Would you please share your idea to recover data from a bad SD card?

Thank you.

[Photoray002]

Did you go to Disk Management in Windows to see if the card shows up there? What happens?

If it shows in Disk Management but not Explorer, it probably needs a drive letter assigned to it.

If it does not show up in Disk Management, it probably wont show up in Linux either, but you can certainly try.

On rare occasion, if the SD Card Lock Switch is on, slide it off and it will now be seen.

If you can see the card, you can recover with most any free tool on the net, such as Piriform's Recuva.

[mech-eng]

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@Photoray002 wrote:

Did you go to Disk Management in Windows to see if the card shows up there? What happens?

If it shows in Disk Management but not Explorer, it probably needs a drive letter assigned to it.

If it does not show up in Disk Management, it probably wont show up in Linux either, but you can certainly try.

On rare occasion, if the SD Card Lock Switch is on, slide it off and it will now be seen.

If you can see the card, you can recover with most any free tool on the net, such as Piriform's Recuva.

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First thank you for this. Yes I went there and I can see that windows identifies it as "RAW" instead of "NTFS" which others have. I tried a linux release but it cannot see it as a disk. Now would you please explain what should I do? Does HP a built-in tool for such a case?

[Photoray002]

RAW means the drive has become corrupted.

The free tool I mentioned above, Piriform's Recuva can usually find and recover all or most of the files.

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

[mech-eng]

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@Photoray002 wrote:

RAW means the drive has become corrupted.

The free tool I mentioned above, Piriform's Recuva can usually find and recover all or most of the files.

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

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Unfortunately, when using Recuva I took this notification: Failed to scan following drives: G:: Unable to read MFT.

What can we do now?

Thank you.

[Photoray002]

You might not be able to recover the SD card at this point.

Two things you could try... Run a chkdsk repair from command prompt.

Sometimes that will repair the drive but (not always) if the drive has reverted to a RAW state.

A paid recovery program might be able to do better than the free services.

Easus offers a free trial that can scan the drive and recover 1 GB free. If it can do that much, it should work to get the rest of it off, but you will have to pay for that.

Heres a link to them explaining how to run the CMD prompt fix and the download for the recovery software.

https://www.easeus.com/storage-media-recovery/repair-raw-sd-card.html

iCare Recovery is another product. Same deal.

https://www.icare-recovery.com/data-recovery-free/free-raw-recovery-sd-card.html

Otherwise, if no software can recover the files from the RAW drive, you will have to reformat the drive to use it again.

Reformatting will wipe the drive. Then the free recovery software like Recuva can find lost data.

BUT some data will be permanently wiped due to the formatting process.

I give you no guarantee's. That's the best I can offer.