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Hard Drive not been seen by BIOS

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by eulessed, Mar 13, 2008.

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I have an HP Pavilion Ze5470us laptop that is a bit over 4 years old. Last week when I turned it on it took forever for XP to load, so I just turned off the laptop. Turned it on and it came up with the options: safe mode, last know good configuration, normal, etc, etc... I selected normal, then nothing happened. After a few minutes I comes up with No Operating System found.

I have went into the System Setup/Bios to do a hard drive test but it does not show the Hard Drive present.

So I am not sure if the HDD just died on me mysteriously or the BIOS got corrupted.

Any advice is appreciated.

eulessed, Mar 13, 2008

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pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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It sounds like your BIOS is at least working to some extent. Try booting the GParted LiveCD and see if you can see the HD from there?

pixelot, Mar 14, 2008

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Bog Losing it...

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At that age, it is probable that the drive failed.

Bog, Mar 14, 2008

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Try to reset the bios...
go into bios and "load setup defaults"etc.
This might start a new ide search in the post!

nothing to loose!

tvone2, Mar 14, 2008

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