Non-system disk or disk error, replace and strike any key when ready.......PLEASE HELP!

Cbm10 · ‎08-20-2011

Hi, okayy so this all started just today, but the day before the computer just wouldn't work right and i didn't know what to do with it because it would immediately go to a blue screen after login in my account or any account and then shut off then restart itself. Then today i tried turning it on and all i see is a black screen with typing on it then immediately goes to another black screen that says " Non-System disk error, replace and strike any key when ready" and i don't know what to do with it because it simply just won't do anything (it just stays on that black screen saying that) and im not a computer genious so i would really appreciate someone's help 🙂 Ohh and i have the HP ProBook 4425s just in case anyone needs to know.

Huffer · ‎08-21-2011

Its the hard drive. Likely needs replaced. Tap F10 as you power on and see if you can get into setup and there is a hard drive self-test you can run to confirm.

Cbm10 · ‎08-22-2011

Well i did the test and it just said it passed then i tried restarting it and tried pressing the F11 but it just won't do anything it's still stuck on the black screen page. So i guess i'll have to replace the hard drive or something but i don't know how? Or who should do it?

Huffer · ‎08-22-2011

If the drive passes the drive fitness test then it is not a mechanical problem with the hard drive....likely just corrupted software or maybe a more general hardware problem like bad memory. But it is unlikely you could have run through the hard drive test if the memory were bad. So I am going with the corrupted hard drive files theory. You can call HP and get a recovery disk for your laptop or just use the Key Code on the bottom to reinstall Windows 7 from any such disk. Some very pernicious viruses can cause issues like this. We are seeing a lot of rootkits these days and to get rid of one of those you really need to do a zero fill or complete nuke of the hard drive. Try running this utility to completely clean the hard drive:

http://www.dban.org/download

yonas11 · ‎11-21-2011

Re: Non-system disk or disk error, replace and strike any key when ready.......PLEASE HELP!

sorna · ‎01-14-2012

non-system disk or disk error

sorna · ‎01-14-2012

@Cbm10 wrote:
Hi, okayy so this all started just today, but the day before the computer just wouldn't work right and i didn't know what to do with it because it would immediately go to a blue screen after login in my account or any account and then shut off then restart itself. Then today i tried turning it on and all i see is a black screen with typing on it then immediately goes to another black screen that says " Non-System disk error, replace and strike any key when ready" and i don't know what to do with it because it simply just won't do anything (it just stays on that black screen saying that) and im not a computer genious so i would really appreciate someone's help 🙂 Ohh and i have the HP ProBook 4425s just in case anyone needs to know.
@Cbm10 wrote:
Hi, okayy so this all started just today, but the day before the computer just wouldn't work right and i didn't know what to do with it because it would immediately go to a blue screen after login in my account or any account and then shut off then restart itself. Then today i tried turning it on and all i see is a black screen with typing on it then immediately goes to another black screen that says " Non-System disk error, replace and strike any key when ready" and i don't know what to do with it because it simply just won't do anything (it just stays on that black screen saying that) and im not a computer genious so i would really appreciate someone's help 🙂 Ohh and i have the HP ProBook 4425s just in case anyone needs to know.

sorna · ‎01-14-2012

please slove this problem non-system disk or disk error replace and strike any when ready

TobyM · ‎03-08-2012

I have this same problem and i cant get it to work iv tried everything. But i tried to do the HDD self test i can see it BUT i cannot click it, its faded out please tell me what this means

TobyM · ‎03-08-2012

I have this same problem and i cant get it to work iv tried everything. But i tried to do the HDD self test i can see it BUT i cannot click it, its faded out please tell me what this means