The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Need Driver Help!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Last Pick, Nov 18, 2011.

  1. Last Pick

    Last Pick Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    77
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    I stupidly install the seagate 500 gb driver update( i have 750 gb hdd), now when i turn on my laptop i get a non-system disk, press any key screen anyway to fix?
     
    Last Pick, Nov 18, 2011
    #1
  2. ahuizotl

    ahuizotl Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    86
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    won't let you boot to safe mode... Well you could try removing the drive and doing a restore/backup using an external dock.
     
    ahuizotl, Nov 18, 2011
    #2
  3. Last Pick

    Last Pick Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    77
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    no it boots normally after i press any key but the message is annoying
     
    Last Pick, Nov 19, 2011
    #3
  4. inzelux

    inzelux Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    244
    Messages:
    319
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Seems like the bootloader is corrupted, so that your PC thinks of it as an external drive.
    Try to play around with it in the BIOS, try to put "hard drive" as the top boot-device.
    Did it change any?


    Probably a sloppy advice but, might help..
    - Scott.
     
    inzelux, Nov 19, 2011
    #4