Gateway hard drive issue

Removed hard drive to test another in my gateway m305crv and noiw i replaced the original ahrdrive and it is not recongnized in the bis
Also, the bios will not allow me to change the settings

I know that there is somewhere where sosmethign needs to be reset, but just not sure what i'm missing.
Please help.

i get a mesage saying no os installed when i try to boot up.

Could removing the cmos battery help me?
Thanks
Mark

 

Try this:

1) Turn off
2) Take out laptop battery
3) Take out hdd, then put it back in, making sure the connection is secure
4) Put battery back in
5) Turn on
6) ?????
7) Profit

 

I've done this several times. someone mentioned to me that gateway may have an adapter inside that came lose. I hate to start pulling on things and find out they didn't

 

Could ther have been a jumper on there that fell off?

 

Those are 3 completely different problems

What settings are you trying to change in BIOS?

Have you tried another different hard drive after these problems developed to see if the other hard drive works?

Have you tried putting in a windows boot disk to find out if windows sees the hard drive?

 

I've ordered another hardrive to try. I have tried booting from windows, in the older laptop it boots and doesn't see any drive what so ever. In the gateway 600 i tried booting from the cd rom with several diagnostic programs, and this gateway will not boot from the cd rom without a good hardrive.
I had someone tell me that some laptops will not see the cd rom without the drivers installed on the hard drive. i guess that's why they left those little floppy drives on the laptops for . lol

So now I have two laptops, that i just purchased with the same error codes PXE-e61

 

That is not true, a new (blank) hard drive has nothing installed whatsoever. Obviously you HAVE to boot from the cd to install windows (Or any OS) on the hard drive. You should still be able to boot from CD even without a hard drive.

You still didn't answer my question: What settings are you trying to change in BIOS? What settings WILL it let you change? What WONT it let you change?

 

lulz aware