It seems that when I re-boot this morning, my boot screen can not seem to find my hard drive (posting from my laptop back up plan a for now)/.
This is a bad thing, right ?
help ?
It could be something as simple as the hard drive became disconnected from the laptop (if it was bounced around for example).
Try finding where the hard drive is - they're usually a "slide-out" type of system on the underside. Take the hard drive out and reseat it. Let us know if this helps.
It is actually my desk top pc.
I posted the first post from my laptop and this one from my iPhone.
Please keep the suggestions coming all day. It will be tonight before I can tackle this one.
OK - the same technique applies, instead now you'll have to take the cover off the box. But first, are there any strange noises coming from the computer such as:
1. A series of beeps (not just one beep) upon powerup of the machine.
2. Weird clicks, knocks or grinding coming from the hard drive.
Open the box and check that the power and data cables are correctly seated in their jacks both on the motherboard and the drive. (I assume you have a SaTA drive, and not an older PaTA setup.)
Again, keep us in the loop.
The only option on that screen is for a bootable usb drive i.e. a flash drive, do you have one of those plugged into a usb port?
It should be listing your hdd so you may have a failure in the hdd or the power supply to the hdd or as said before a loose connection to it.
If nothing else works you could create a bootable flash drive and see if you can do a dir to see if the hard drive can be found.
If the BIOS doesn't recognize the disk (which seems like it is probably the issue from the screen shot) then it is likely a hardware issue.
The first thing you should do is unplug your Seagate USB hard drive.
then try booting.
The second thing is to get into the BIOS and see if your the BIOS is able to see your hard drive. All BIOS's are different so it's hard to give you specific steps without seeing screen shots. If the BIOS doesn't see the drive (which is what your screen shot leads me to believe) then it is likely a hardware issue, if it does see it, then it's likely a driver issue or corrupt boot file.
Assuming your BIOS doesn't see the drive, then the third thing to do is to check the physical connections to the hard drive and to the motherboard from the hard drive.
If the connections are solid, and you still can't boot, then you can try moving the drive to the next pata/sata port and try connecting to a different power cable, then try booting. (note you may have to change some settings in the BIOS telling it where the primary hard drive is, etc. after moving the hard drive to a different sata port)
If none of those work it gets more complex but it is likely your hard drive has probably spun it's last span.
-Mark P.
> The first thing you should do is unplug your Seagate USB hard drive.
> then try booting.
Yes. I have seen where a USB drive can halt the boot-up process. Most times (in my experience), the computer simply stops booting without any messages and a blank screen.
