Hard Drive BIOS

holly10566 · Feb 20, 2014

I left for week end left pc on came back and it says reboot and select proper boot device press any key, I did that, did not work I went into bios and only see cd/dvd, no harddrive what can I do

COLGeek · Feb 20, 2014

Power the system down and disconnect all power sources (monitor, power cable, powered speakers). Open the case and make sure your HDDs are properly connected to both the data and power cables. Also check that your data cable is properly connected to your motherboard).

With the case off, reconnect the previously removed devices and try again.

smorizio · Feb 20, 2014

also put your hand to the hard drive see if the drive is spinning up. with hard drive the controller can fail at any time if it does the drive wont spin up or the drive will spin up and down. if you have another pc you can plug the drive that has issues into it and use a drive recovery software to see if the drive can be seen.
https://www.piriform.com/recuva

ram1009 · Feb 21, 2014

Most likely your HDD has failed however I have seen SATA devices "disappear" myself. A simple remedy may be to reseat the cables as has been suggested or you might also try a different SATA port on the MB or a different SATA cable. Lastly you can relocate the HDD to a different computer to see if the other BIOS sees the drive and/or replace the suspicious HDD with a known good HDD and see if your BIOS detects it. I sincerely hope this is not your wakeup call to backing up your HDD.

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