I recently had problems with my desktop which suddenly stopped booting to bios. I only get a startup beep and then two short beeps not long after and cannot get past a black screen. According to what I can find, this may indicate a hardware problem. I pulled the boot drive and put it in an external reader on a working system so I can view it in a Windows environment and I can see two parts to the drive while in My Computer - Hard drives. All I can see is a small file system labeled system reserved and the rest of the drive space as local disc with a RAW file system format.
When I go into disk management, I can see a partition of 15gb which is healthy, and the rest of the drive as another partition.
IS this normal for a boot drive to read like this? I am unable to view anything on any part of it. It does spin up and gets warm so I assume the drive itself is mechanically ok and workable.
When I go into disk management, I can see a partition of 15gb which is healthy, and the rest of the drive as another partition.
IS this normal for a boot drive to read like this? I am unable to view anything on any part of it. It does spin up and gets warm so I assume the drive itself is mechanically ok and workable.