Hard Drive Not Recognized

Tj Henshaw

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Oct 6, 2013
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10,510
Hello all,
My laptop does not recognize my hard drive, in other words I cannot start windows, access advanced options ect. When attempting to boot it will tell me to check cable connection for my ethernet controller and that there's no bootable device. I understand that the computer tried to boot from LAN. My boot order DOES have my HDD first, it just gets skipped it seems. The Bios recognizes the hard drive and power is being brought to the HDD since i can hear it run. If I insert my Windows 7 Installation disk and attempt to clean install windows it will hang at the "Setup is Starting" screen. I've tried the disk in a different computer and it worked fine. If I click the Repair computer option on the disk it does not list any OS's. This problem started as a "Kernel_Inpage_Error" on a blue screen of death and progressively got worse to this point. I do not believe it is a hardware issue since it started happening right after I tried to update windows and my laptop went to sleep during it (I've had problems with windows updates before). Any kind of boot option fails and the recovery options do not work as well (no restore points either). Factory Reset won't work either. Getting the data off of the hard drive would be great but I am fully prepared to wipe it and start from scratch if there was a way to. Perhaps there is a certain .iso that can fix this? Please help I need my laptop for school and have been attempting to fix this for a couple of days now.
Here are my specs:
Toshiba Satellite L655D
HDD: Hitachi HTS545032B9A300
CPU: AMD Phenom II P920
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Thanks in advance!!
 
Solution
go into your bios of the laptop set it to factory default. save and reboot and see if the drive is seen. if not make sure the onboard sata ports are on and set to achi mode.

Tj Henshaw

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Oct 6, 2013
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10,510


I've tried pretty much all of the different settings from the bios including this one and nothing works, I believe it's more complicated than that. Thanks though!