I have a major problem. My sons computer keeps losing its hard drive. I have gone into the BIOs and reset it to Default but then it lost the Hard Drive completely. I had checked before i rebooted to see if it was reading and it was. I set the BIOs for PnP in hope that it would find it but now all it does is sit at the loading screen and i cant even get back into the BIOs to try something else. What is should i do to maybe correct it.
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Jump to Postby losing its hard drive do you mean:
a: not detecting the hardware?
b: failing to load the os?
c: corrupting the hdds contents?sounds like either a dead drive, cable or controller
Jump to Posthow old is the pc and its components?
modern ( post 2001ish) systems should automatically detect the HDD. On older pcs you may need to specify the number of heads/cylinders etc... manually
One possible solution: Replace the BIOS battery
its easy, its just a small (watch size) …
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