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Computer help: Primary HD not found,No boot device avalible,please help!!!
SIRKGM14vg-I tried some of these things you sugest earlier..
by stinman - 11/13/06 2:22 PM In reply to: Common Issue, Simple or Difficult Resolution by SIRKGM14vgI did place the CD in the CD-rom and it read it.It loaded everything
and went all the way to the screen where it says,in short-1 load windows
2 repair windows 3 exit without doing anything.I tried all 3 20 times
different ways to no avail.I then took the hard drive to a friends who
knows quite alot about computers.We put the hard drive in another laptop
and he had something to do what you said about firing it up there.But it said the same thing on his also.Can not read,we could not even extract
the info on it.As far as test,you can hold down fn on the keyboard while booting up the system and letting go at the same time and it goes into some test mode.It then ran some test and stopped at the HDD and said it could not read it or something like that.Thanks for your time!!
Does your friend have SpinRite ....might be worth a try.
by VAPCMD - 11/13/06 8:36 PM In reply to: SIRKGM14vg-I tried some of these things you sugest earlier.. by stinmanDid you try it with the mfgs DIAGs ??
VAPCMD
In order to try data recovery from the old HDD
by lacsr - 11/14/06 4:58 AM In reply to: Does your friend have SpinRite ....might be worth a try. by VAPCMDTry booting from a Linux Live CD
http://www.knoppix.org/
or try some of the recovery utilities from the Ultimate Boot CD
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
If the HDD is not completely fried, you can still recover the data. There are some HDD manufacturer's files that can check the HDD on the ultimate Boot CD if you know the manufacturer. It could possibly even restore the HDD.
When booting in Linux, it will show you what it is doing as it loads and may point to the problem besides looking at the files on the HDD. Give them a try before throwing in the towel.
Hardware problem...
by SIRKGM14vg - 11/14/06 8:25 AM In reply to: SIRKGM14vg-I tried some of these things you sugest earlier.. by stinman...it looks like the drive has failed. I'm a little bit unsure that what you did earlier caused this to happen.
In this case recovery is not a, pheasable option. It can be done, but it's going to cost you some $$$. (Whoops forgot a $; $$$$).
I just noticed you said it was a notebook drive. These drives have a high failure rate under extreme conditions (heat, access, use).
Hopefully you have your personal files backed up to another drive.
-M
HDD not found is a bios issue
by Seaspray0 - 11/14/06 3:06 PM In reply to: Primary HD not found,No boot device avalible,please help!!! by stinmanYou are getting the message just after the Dell logo screen and before windows starts. What is happening: The computer is not finding the hard drive. This has nothing to do with any files contained on the hard drive, the computer can't see the hard drive period. Open the case and make sure the power and interface cables are still connected. When you start the computer, hit the key that will take to to setup. Look in the BIOS setup screens to see what the computer says is connected to it (does it say there is a hard drive?). You are not going to get anywhere until the PC finds the hard drive. It may be that the hard drive has crashed... it happens. Try installing the hard drive on another computer into the cables used for the CD drive. Does the other computer see the hard drive? Troubleshoot the issue... is the the cable, the hard drive, or the original mother board? If you can't get another PC to see the hard drive, then you are looking at replacing the hard drive.
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