Disk boot failure, is it the HDD?

Arpegius

Arpegius

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Hi all, looking for a bit of helo

Running a 1.5 year old build on Win 7, everything working well last night, no viruses that I know of etc, shut down as normal via start menu, am trying to start it up today and I get to the BIOS bit that says Verifying DMI pool data....... then it says DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

Question is, is this the mobo giving out, the HDD or something else? I'm stumped because it's all fairly new stuff, not installed anything new, not knocked it or recently moved. Checked the HDD power cables and other connectors and all seems to be OK, would appreciate any help to identify which component is busted

Ta
 
Hmm, it maybe the HDD is knackered, I'm sure I'm meant to be able to see it in the BIOS setup under standard CMOS features > IDE channel xyz but it's not showing a HDD, does this sound right?
 
Your bios should be able to detect the hard drive. I had a maxtor drive once that refused to boot in the same way and was sometimes missed by bios and other times came up with the wrong name, make and size. It turned out that the heads had crashed and plowed a furrow in one of the platters.

Try disconnecting and reconnecting the drive and retry booting a few times. There may be a hard drive detect option in your bios too. Try that.

What make is the disk anyway?
 
Maxtor 250GB ish jobby funnily enough, nothing special.
HDD detect in BIOS comes up with nothing, I've never had this problem before. Disconnected SATA and power bits and reconnected with no joy :(
Am I in the market for a new HDD?
 
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