Error code 0x3bc3 windows 7

Here are the steps:. View solution in original post. Thank you for sharing the information. The error code indicates hard drive failure. I recommend that you backup the data if you are able to boot to Windows as hard drive failure may cause data loss.

You may consider replacing the hard drive. Please tell me if a surge protector is required before pluggin in to the power here in Ecuador. You can try using a surge protector, however, the issue here is that the hard drive has failed and needs replacement.

The system is not in warranty any more and you will need to get the hard drive replaced. If you are comfortable replacing the parts yourself, I suggest that you get a similar hard drive for your system and replace it.

Else, you may contact a local technician to do that for you. You may refer to the Service Manual of this system for instructions on replacing the hardware components. Please follow the safety guidelines. Still curious, I again booted from Windows 7 repair disc, from USB flash drive, and again it found errors but also could not detect my OS in that list.

This has shaken my faith in use of the bootable USB flash drive option for Windows 7 repair disc. Has anyone seen anything like this, or knows why the Windows 7 repair disc would have such bad behaviour when booted from USB? This might be because the recovery system checks the drive type and sometimes reads the flash stick instead of the actual hard drive.

I would have thought that it would check all attached drives, looking for a Windows installation. The list of detected Windows installations seems to suggest that it would check multiple locations, otherwise why a list?

Do you have any links that talk about the situation you described? I've been searching, but haven't found anything relevant. Have you tried your flash drive on more than one PC to see if the problem is with the one specific PC or is a general problem with all PCs? How the Windows recovery CD deals with this, I don't know. You would think that it would know to search all attached disks for a Windows installation, but how and what it does is something I don't know.

From your description in the first post it almost sounds like the recovery CD is searching your flash drive for a Windows installation and not the hard disk. Amateur Radio K0LO. Possible, although when I let it do the repair it recommended, it clearly altered something on my Windows OS hard drive since it would not boot after that "repair". Step 1. Step 2. Step 4. Choose a proper MBR type according to your operating system. This information is intended for developers debugging system errors.

For other errors, such as issues with Windows Update, there is a list of resources on the Error codes page. The following list describes system error codes errors 0 to They are returned by the GetLastError function when many functions fail. Windows cannot find the network path.

Verify that the network path is correct and the destination computer is not busy or turned off. If Windows still cannot find the network path, contact your network administrator.