Harddrive visible in BIOS but not in Windows (not as unallocated either)

zawoo

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Hi all,

One day I shut down my HP laptop and ever since then my hard drive would not boot into windows. I can see it in when I go into selecting boot order but otherwise it is undetectable.

Here's what I have tried so far.

-Removed Hard drive and put it into another computer and try to access through windows 7.
-Boot PC through with linux and see if the hard drive is detected.
-Ran stellar phoenix, but it does not detect it either.

I am pretty much stumped. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
 
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Ok, so if you have only the one hard drive then im not to sure, but as you stated you can see that it is unallocated then it seems you have 2+ hard drives. So in start menu type "disc" then a program will say on it "Create and format disc partitions" click on it, and then right click on the unallocated hard drive and press "add volume" and if that is not optional, press "allocate the letter to drive" thanks :)

danoroth

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Ok, so if you have only the one hard drive then im not to sure, but as you stated you can see that it is unallocated then it seems you have 2+ hard drives. So in start menu type "disc" then a program will say on it "Create and format disc partitions" click on it, and then right click on the unallocated hard drive and press "add volume" and if that is not optional, press "allocate the letter to drive" thanks :)
 
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