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    Gateway MX3230 laptop and No hard drive found message

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by feeldumbgirl, Apr 2, 2007.

  1. feeldumbgirl

    feeldumbgirl Newbie

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    This laptop is seven months old, and as of last Friday, I had this strange problem where I got a hard drive not found message. Of course, I cannot boot windows XP either ! It happened in a split second. Up until that point, everything was working pretty well..although the internet connection was a bit slow. All I know about computers are what an IP address is, a default gateway, a subnet mask, how to mask IP addresses, how to determine someone elses IP address, how to ping, how to surf anonymously, what proxy servers are, that a hard drive can be formatted, that there are trojan horse viruses, that there are keylogger hacking programs, and not much else. oh, and I can insert the XP cd and reload the operating system.

    If someone could help me to decide if I actually need to send the laptop back under warrantee and get a new hard drive, among other things, that would be wonderful.

    Thanks !
     
    feeldumbgirl, Apr 2, 2007
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  2. JollyGreenGiant

    JollyGreenGiant Notebook Consultant

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    Did you make sure the hard drive didnt slip out a little?
     
    JollyGreenGiant, Apr 4, 2007
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