Windows 7 not starting up (hard drive issue?)

greenCell

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Hi all,

I woke up this morning to find the monitor displaying this:
CD-ROM Boot Priority ..No Medium
Reboot and Select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key


When I reboot my machine and try to start Windows in normal mode, a blue screen will flash for less than a second. Afterwards it will show the boot device message from above. The blue screen reads:
UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

In bios under System Info I noticed that it reads:
Memory installed: 9216MB
Memory available: 9208MB

As if all the content got wiped out?

If I choose the option to launch repair startup, I see a cursor with Window's typical login background, but nothing pops up.

After hitting F12 to run boot options and go to the utility partition, I ran an express test on the system. An error pops up:
Error code: 0F00: 133C.
Msg: DISK No suitable disk media is present


I tried opening up my desktop and found nothing unsual (from what I could tell..)
Does anyone know what's going on? Is my hard drive toast?
 

Hayden Hutsell

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Well first, the memory installed/ available isn't your hdd, unless you have a 9 gig hard drive, and 9.216 gbs is an awful weird amount for ram. Looking up the error code, it has to do with Ram/Video card. I think our problem here is the ram. Check to make sure the ram is installed properly, and that you dont have like 1 3 gb stick and 2 2gb stick.
 

greenCell

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Nothing seems out of place when I open it up. This setup has been working great for years so I don't suspect an installation issue.
 

greenCell

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Just double-checked, HDD is set to be first priority in bios.