Good evening computer and laptop gurus


My Dell inspiron operating on windows 7 started to bring up something as soon I on it this evening "Hard drive not found".

Have looked online but I couldn't get the right thing to do.

Pls Help me!!!

The hard drive has been detached from the motherboard. Look for a way to get to the hard drive, disconnect it and reconnect it back, it should be fine.

Nonso92:
The hard drive has been detached from the motherboard. Look for a way to get to the hard drive, disconnect it and reconnect it back, it should be fine.

You mean I should unscrew the Hard drive compartment?

Cerebellum:
Good evening computer and laptop gurus


My Dell inspiron operating on windows 7 started to bring up something as soon I on it this evening "Hard drive not found".

Have looked online but I couldn't get the right thing to do.

Pls Help me!!!

Enter the bios and first check for attached devices to see if the hard disk is listed

If your bios has a diagnostic function run a check on the harddrive

Did the laptop fall down from a height ?

If the harddrive isn't detected by the bios then maybe it's disconnected from a fall or it's crashed.

If you have a flash drive boot into windows installation to find your drive

Or if you have a windows install disc use that to boot into installation to see if it detects the drive then use the disc to repair windows

It could be a virus some.viruses attack the boot records of the windows harddrive

This is especially common in windows 7

You should upgrade to 10 after this.

Cheers

GofuckYourself:


Enter the bios and first check for attached devices to see if the hard disk is listed

If your bios has a diagnostic function run a check on the harddrive

Did the laptop fall down from a height ?

If the harddrive isn't detected by the bios then maybe it's disconnected from a fall or it's crashed.

If you have a flash drive boot into windows installation to find your drive

Or if you have a windows install disc use that to boot into installation to see if it detects the drive then use the disc to repair windows

It could be a virus some.viruses attack the boot records of the windows harddrive

This is especially common in windows 7

You should upgrade to 10 after this.

Cheers

It didn't fall

And the diskette drive is been listed and clicked already when I checked the booting configuration or so

Cerebellum:



It didn't fall

And the diskette drive is been listed and clicked already when I checked the booting configuration or so

Please explain properly so I get you .

Did you view attached devices via the bios or installation media ?

Did it list the harddrive?

GofuckYourself:


Please explain properly so I get you .

Did you view attached devices via the bios or installation media ?

Did it list the harddrive?

This is what I see whenever I press F2

SETTINGS

* GENERAL

-

-Boot sequence(under)


Diskette drive
clicked)

Then under SYSTEM CONFIGURATION



SO I DON'T KNOW IF AM TO CHANGE IT TO ATA?

Cerebellum:


This is what I see whenever I press F2

SETTINGS

* GENERAL

- system infor
-Battery infor
-Boot sequence(under)


Diskette drive
internal HDD
USB storages device
CD/DVF/CD-RW Drive
Onboard NIC(not clicked)

Then under SYSTEM CONFIGURATION


I SEE SOMETHING CALLED


SATA operation and when I press I see


Disabled (not clicked)

.ATA. not clicked

AHCI. clicked

SO I DON'T KNOW IF AM TO CHANGE IT TO ATA?

Click on I ternal.harddrive to see if it's seeing the full size or has a diagnostic option

Don't change any settings that weren't changed before this thing happened

GofuckYourself:


Click on I ternal.harddrive to see if it's seeing the full size or has a diagnostic option

Don't change any settings that weren't changed before this thing happened

Thanks

Someone told me to go through the memory noticed that the Primary hard drive displayed "none" indicating it absence


So I need to unscrew and connect it back


But how obvious will it be if truly it where the problem lies?

Cerebellum:


Thanks

Someone told me to go through the memory noticed that the Primary hard drive displayed "none" indicating it absence


So I need to unscrew and connect it back


But how obvious will it be if truly it where the problem lies?

You would see it , though if the laptop didn't fall down there is no way the hard drive could have disconnected .

But check all the same . I still believe the laptop fell down

GofuckYourself:


You would see it , though if the laptop didn't fall down there is no way the hard drive could have disconnected .

But check all the same . I still believe the laptop fell down

Alright..Thank you


I'll give you feedback

Cerebellum:



You mean I should unscrew the Hard drive compartment?

If you don't know how, search YouTube for the model of your laptop and type hard drive replacement in front for example (Hp 655 hard drive replacement) you should see a video that explains how to remove your hard drive and replace it.

Just remove it, and put it back properly, and gently. It should be detected by the bios.

I did as you Gurus said and my system is back and running!


Nonso92 and GofuckYourself, I'm so grateful and thanks so much for the guide


Cheers

Cerebellum:
I did as you Gurus said and my system is back and running!


Nonso93 and GofuckYourself, I'm so grateful and thanks so much for the guide


Cheers

I had to read this comme t like twice, at first I thought I saw "Nonso92 gofuckyourself"

You're welcome bro. Happy to help

Nonso92:


I had to read this comme t like twice, at first I thought I saw "Nonso92 gofuckyourself"

You're welcome bro. Happy to help

Lol..

You are big fooll

Patrioticbreed9:
You are big fooll

Who is a fool ?