Recently my hard drive appeared to have failed. My computer would not recognise a bootable disk on power up. I tried the hard disk in my housemates computer and similarly did not recognise.
Figuring it was broken, I got a spare drive and placed it in the machine. The drive was recognised, but not bootable obviously. So I went and got my Windows disk, put it in and tried to boot from the DVD. Then I noticed the DVD drive wasn't being recognised either. Went into the BIOS, checked the boot order etc. and tried to force it to recognise the DVD drive. It did, but still wouldn't boot from it. I started playing with random settings and there was an option in the BIOS called AHCI/RAID mode, which by default was set to "None", I changed this to "AHCI" and rebooted. It then went through a different boot sequence from normal and recognised the DVD drive.
Was just wondering if this actually is likely a hard drive failure, or something to do with the mobo, or both?
Any ideas?
Thanks.
(p.s. I tried multiple sata ports and power cables for each drive).
Figuring it was broken, I got a spare drive and placed it in the machine. The drive was recognised, but not bootable obviously. So I went and got my Windows disk, put it in and tried to boot from the DVD. Then I noticed the DVD drive wasn't being recognised either. Went into the BIOS, checked the boot order etc. and tried to force it to recognise the DVD drive. It did, but still wouldn't boot from it. I started playing with random settings and there was an option in the BIOS called AHCI/RAID mode, which by default was set to "None", I changed this to "AHCI" and rebooted. It then went through a different boot sequence from normal and recognised the DVD drive.
Was just wondering if this actually is likely a hard drive failure, or something to do with the mobo, or both?
Any ideas?
Thanks.
(p.s. I tried multiple sata ports and power cables for each drive).