My laptops hard drive is no longer getting detected, it did this before and then it booted up again, when I restarted it it was stuck on the acer screen again! half way loaded, in bios there is no autodetect feature
2007-09-09 10:04:36 · 5 answers · asked by Purtee56 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
BIOS will not open
2007-09-09 10:21:43 · update #1
Well, you are not likely to remove the drive very often. Does the bios let you describe the drive? Tell it how many blocks, sectors and cylinders it has.
2007-09-09 10:09:07 · answer #1 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's usually a sign of a dead drive, the on board controller can die and cause it to do this. Buy an external drive and use that instead until you can get it repaired.
2007-09-09 10:09:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you could have a loose IDE cable on your laptop harddrive. it your laptop has been dropped, bumped around a lot or anything like that it could easily be a loose cable connecting to your harddrive (happened on one of my older laptops). it'd also be a good idea to just crack open your laptop case and take a look and reseat the cable. should just be 4 screws.
2007-09-09 10:12:24 · answer #3 · answered by phiber101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i wonder,how it does not have auto detect in bios!
and how it worked before1?
so you should defin HD manually in BIOS,that is not easy
2007-09-09 10:16:11 · answer #4 · answered by nasser a 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your drive is bad.
2007-09-09 10:16:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋