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BIOS stopped recognizing Hard Drive

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The computer is a Gateway NV79 laptop with a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 SATA Hard Drive. OS is Windows 7 Home, 64 bit. A few days ago a message can up at boot up saying "no boot devices found, please insert bootable disk". So I checked the BIOS and noticed that my hard drive was not listed anywhere, the spot where it should of been was blank but it did recognize my DVD drive with all the correct info. I took my hard drive out, attached it to another computer and it worked fine and I was able to backup all my files. I plugged it back in and got the same mesage. I then took the motherboard battery out to reset the BIOS, still no luck. I then looked for a BIOS upgrade and still no luck.i I even tried hooking up a completely different Hard drive and still no luck. I'm now assuming something is wrong with the Motherboard but was wondering if you had any suggestions that I may have missed?

Thanks,
Vinny

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alexoiu said:
It might be a problem with powering the HDD. You can try using an external HDD enclosure.

Thanks for the suggestion...

Do you mean a powering problem from the connection on the motherboard in my laptop? because I took the hard drive out and hooked it up to my desktop through a USB hard drive adapter I have and it worked fine and I was at least able to copy all my files to my desktop so I have them backed up.

I'll give it a try through my laptop and tell you if it worked or not. Thanks for the suggestion

Yes, a problem with the motherboard (not providing power to the HDD). Not sure also if it's a connection issue or more than that. Check if in BIOS there's an option for booting from a removable device. If yes, then most probably you can use the enclosure.
Is the laptop still under warranty?

I'm new to this site and I'm pretty impressed at how fast all of you responded to my problem, thank you. I greatly appreciate it and will definitly use this site in the future. Other sites like these usually take days to get a response. Thanks again for all your help
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