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mandy - Latest answer on Jan 15, 2013 07:41PM

Hello,
my laptop(acer Aspire 5570Z) while booting says hard disk not detected.....it all happened suddenly ..nothing was wrong with my hard disk as well...my hard disk is 4 months old (HITACHI TRAVELSTAR ) and my notebook is 1 year old...the mesage while booting says.......Pre Boot Execution Environment(PXE) v2.1
Client MAC Addr. 00 1B 24 15 B5 54
GUID 206CA6E6-DB02-D911-8EB7-001B2415B554
PXE-E53:No Boot Filename Received
PXE-MOF:Exiting PXE ROM
Operating System not found
I have tried every thing..have been to almost each and every forum on internet to search the solution but nothing had been working...
I have tried booting from WINDOWS CD ..tried to go into recovery console and also tried to set up windows but nothing worked it says the same thing no hard disk detected.....
I am really very upset and dont know what to do. Is it my hard drive which has gone...i have also tried resetting the bios option to default...nothing hapened ..also took my hard drive out and again put it in the same place ...again no breakthrough....
PLEASE HELP......THERE WAS MY FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEO OF MY BROTHER AND HE IS NO MORE NOW. I DONT WANT TO LOOSE THEM.....THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY PAIN TAKEN TO HELP ME OUT

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ome1217 Nov 16, 2008 06:07PM

hi, think i'm way too late but just in case, go to the BIOS setup, & change the disk controller setting from AHCI to IDE. might worth the try.

Pranav - Jan 9, 2009 02:53AM

You are the best. Thanks a lot man. It worked.

kims - Jan 13, 2009 05:08AM

thanks it really worked!!!!

Abhi - Mar 14, 2009 05:25PM

Wow.. Thanks for guiding me in right direction. My lappy didn't have option of SCSI or IDE. But there was SATA Enable/Disable option. I disabled SATA, and then XP bootable cum installer worked fine !!

Thanks...

sahil - May 4, 2009 07:34PM

hi abi
i have a laptop TOSHIBA Model No.PSU40E recently bought from my frined there was windows vista installed in it, as i have formated it and tried to install win xp i could see the hard disk was not detected and the instalation halted saying press F3 to quit instaltion, as i just came accross to this link to get solution i was curoius if in case you help me to get this problem fixed, i would be thankfull for this, waiting and hopein for your early reply
Thank you
Form:Sahil

MoSpirit - Jan 16, 2010 11:59AM

You need to have the Sata drivers. XP does not come with them already but vista and 7 do. once you have them make a new disk image with nLite which is FREE, burn the disk and should work, it did for me.

enriko - Apr 18, 2009 12:53PM

Hi,

I have an acer 4620z and i have vista and i was trying to install xp however during the installation i got a problem described by many as "hardisk cannot be detected make sure that your hardisk is properly plugged in" something like that. There was an advice to change AHCI to SATA or disable the AHCI. my question is Where in BIOS I can disable the AHCI. There is no option like that.

Any repsonse will be much appreciated. thanks and more power

online jd - May 1, 2009 08:32PM

you mean at the bluescreen of the installation process the message "hardisk cannot be detected make sure that your hardisk is properly plugged in" appears right? and installation of the windows wont continue.

im not sure if this applies to all registries, but the hard disk capacity is limited to 160gig if you wont enable this:
(im not sure if its 160gig, the size limit, but yeah hard disk capacity is limited, to change that follow the steps)

go to REGEDIT (start>run>type"regedit")
then..
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/atapi/parameters

at the parameters, click the windows space and select "new" then "DWORD VALUE"
change the name of the dword value to "enableBigLba"
double click that value(the enableBigLba) and change its value data to "1"
leave the base as hexadecimal

then reboot

then try installing the windows again, if the same problem appears your hard disk(where youre installing the operating system) might be not support by your motherboard.
anyway try this thread
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic27534-2.html
you can see my post there at the second page, something similar to your problem

amakus - May 7, 2009 06:20AM

if we change the disk controller setting from AHCI to IDE. is that our raid setting will totaly lost?
iam worry about my database gone when i change it...

Ravi - Jun 23, 2009 12:23PM

Thank's for your right suggestion to make change in BIOS from AHCI to IDE earlier i had AHCI then i changed to SATA . It works fine.

DML - Sep 19, 2009 03:30PM

Thank you for the idea. In my case, I had to disable "native SATA mode" in the bios and that did it. I remember restoring BIOS to default values and that IS what put it in SATA hence causing the problem
Cheers

deeogie - Oct 26, 2009 08:28AM

Hey DML

Disabling the 'native sata mode' worked for my hp laptop

thanx

tietie - Jan 21, 2010 04:20AM

it worked for me too am so great ful.God bless you real good

shelob - Feb 21, 2010 05:51AM

thx a lot.
we've been searching for 2 days to find a solution :).
how a little change in the bios can make everything work :)

greetings from belgium :)

delcyan - Mar 16, 2010 07:22PM

Hi,
I read the entire thread because I have a similar problem after installing win 7 everything was fine but right after I installed the Zone Alarm suite just like I had it before formatting. I rebooted and everything was fine until I clicked on the general tab with Zone Alarm. Boom, I got a blue screen and since then I have been trying to fix this and no luck. I got a Stop: 0X0000007B (0XF78DA63C,0XC0000034,0X...). Now when I try to follow your advice to chage the BIOS setting I just cannot find it. I do not find anything that talks about hard with option of sata, etc My PC does not even load win, it gives me a DOS message: No bootable device-- insert boot disk...

I booted from win 7 DVD to reinstall win but my hard drive is not listed in the list. Please help..

Thank you

Anthony

xpcman 7225Posts Wednesday October 8, 2008Registration date ModeratorStatus May 18, 2013Last seen - Mar 16, 2010 07:30PM

If you boot into the BIOS and you can't see the hard drive:
1. the hard drive is disconnected (data cable or power cable)
2. the power supply has partially failed and is not powering the hard drive
3. the motherboard hard drive controller has failed
4. the hard drive has failed

Good Luck

MADDY - Apr 1, 2010 07:49PM

OME U DE BESTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT WOW CHEERS

Anonymous User - Apr 6, 2010 10:18AM

thanks OME,I had the same problem, I rebooted my PC and it told me there was no HD's found. so I did what you said, but in the BIOS my disk controller had switched its self from IDE to RAID mode. So I switched back and it worked like a charm.

O.Red - Apr 10, 2010 10:04AM

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Thanxxxxxxx

superstang - Apr 11, 2010 09:36PM

worked like a charm! log into bios changed from AHCI to "compatibility mode".... and made it into windows.

thanks!

sdat - Oct 9, 2012 07:42AM

OME..Thanks a lot :) You are the bestttt

paresh - Nov 11, 2012 03:06AM

i try but my hard disk not detect,

please help me my all data and that data is my life...

so please help me

thanks for advance

khozaa - Nov 14, 2012 04:18AM

Awesome...! thanks a ton

renz - Nov 25, 2012 09:06AM

can somebody tell me how to get to the BIOS setup plzz

Dacoolone - Nov 30, 2012 07:20AM

just press ESC key or delete key when the laptop or desktop is booting..........

young - Dec 13, 2012 06:58PM

Thank you so much. I worked. It is amazing.

imam - Jan 15, 2013 07:41PM

it's doesn't work! please help me

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arya Sep 14, 2009 05:53PM

thanks a lot man,

finally after 3 days intense hard work, solved in 5 sec. many experts guided wrong, but i can name "tech guru" - thanks a lot again

uuuuuuuu

ashh - Sep 27, 2009 06:21AM

I have IBM Think PAD suddenly it is having same problem which
all are discussing , i tried with CD to install new window but its not working . Each time
prompt coming harddisk not found and press F3 to restart computer. please help me out with suggestions if i can save money to give to computer repairman.

thanks

javier - Nov 8, 2009 10:05PM

hey you are da man bro it work for my laptop compac presario i went to bios setup and i put disable sata tanks man

dfgdfh - Oct 19, 2012 03:24AM

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crazyseidj Oct 26, 2009 11:56PM

Hi Guys, does anyone here know how to disable SATA on HP Pavilion dv7?
For the life of me, I can't seem to find the option in the BIOS setup.

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Tom6 224Posts Friday July 31, 2009Registration date Aug 2, 2009 07:01AM

The initial question sounds as though the hard-drive connection had somehow been knocked loose but if you have a data recovery scenario then it's really best to take the machine to experts to solve it. If you are using linux then it's probably something very simple and basic but even if it's quite advanced they might charge at a cheaper rate because linux is so much easier to work with. Data-recovery can cost quite a lot of money so get a quote before telling them to get on with it.

This guide might help other people with a data recovery issue
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

Good luck and regards all from
Tom :)

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More Jun 23, 2009 03:53AM

I too had a similar problem with my laptop. My laptop had a virus attack and somehow I managed to remove all the viruses. However there was one persistent problem which was while booting, My documents used to open automatically. Hence I wanted to repair the Windows XP SP2 and so I went to BIOS and changed the settings to boot from CDROM. While booting the installation CD from CDROM, suddenly I get a message: Hard disk not found! This was nightmare. Then I got this solution:
My laptop was new and the HDD was connected to motherboard with SATA, and we need SATA drivers before installing OS. In the likely event of not getting this driver, we could still solve this problem by confusing the computer. Go to BIOS settings and change the SATA to IDE or any other. Then restart the computer. The HDD now can be seen and you can repair or reinstall the Windows XP SP2.

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SHAKIB Mar 26, 2010 12:52AM

Dear All

I'm facing the same problem, I browse the net and get differnt opinion to download differnt software but it won't work then one of my freind suggested that go to BOOT and disable SATA, then system will detect your drive install wondow xp .

I tried this and this works.

So you too can try.
All the best

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cgjjbhb Apr 1, 2010 02:08AM

how to restore

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xpcman 7225Posts Wednesday October 8, 2008Registration date ContributorStatus May 18, 2013Last seen Oct 28, 2008 01:19PM

First thing is to retrieve those Family Photographs - buy an external drive adapter or case - remove the drive and put it in the case - attach it to another computer and copy the files you need.

Just because the drive is 4 months old does not mean it did not fail. I hope you get your photographs back.

Bemith - May 24, 2009 01:02PM

Perfect. Saved my life

kk - Feb 10, 2010 02:24AM

there was window 7 installed my computer.one day it was corrupted and shut down automatically when i was playing one of my music file. now when i try to format it with window xp,it shows message like hard drive is not detected...configuration of my pc is- 2gb ram,core 2 duo 2.55ghz processor, 250 gb hd. please provide appropriate solution.

antiBioticz - Mar 20, 2010 05:05AM

change your hard disk on bios from sata to IDE

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onlinejd May 1, 2009 08:37PM

do not reformat yet.
is it possible to boot in safe mode? try that, i had a problem similar to that before
cant enter the windows, but when i chose the safe mode it did
you can copy your files if youve entered the windows

or

try to buy a new hard disk, then use it as the primary, and see if your old hard disk will function as a slave.
sounds a bit expensive but it might work, if it works, you can copy your files then

goodluck

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BLooDSHoT_420 Jun 6, 2009 09:38AM

Hello,

I have the same problem with a home-built AMD 1.3gH "Thunderbird" cpu system, 512mb ddr memory,
40 gig Seagate HDD, 64meg nVidea card. Windowz XP Pro SP3. . Listen, I have tried EVERYTHING to try to get this !?$%@*& pc to boot up.

Always the same thing- "Harddrive not recognized" or "Boot Device Not Recognized". ARRRGH!

We've been through the BIOS (when it still started sometimes), have tried to boot from original WinXP CD, Then from floppies of the same, then a generic recovery disc, Windows Rescue disc, Partition Magic boot floppy, Win98SE install disc, Win 95 disc, more I can't remember.
Recovery pamel no help, can't get there with no hd! . Either the damn HD is bad, or the MB is screwed up somewhere, is all I can figure. I got a local guy who says he can recover data from a dead hd for $60.00 He'll tellI hope he can recover my favs and installation folders/files,and contacts, but if I just get back thr gifs, jpgs, txt, docs, and mp3s I'll be happy . Alot of irreplaceable scanned family pics, the photographs them selves were lost.
It's gotta be the hd or mb, right?

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Magesh Feb 28, 2009 12:55PM

Hi,
I have Transcend removable Hard drive.. which is 120 GB with two partition.. One partition drive is able to access .. another one is unable to use.. its not showing the TOTAL Space and FREE Space.. if i double click the same drive ..windows is asking to format.. if i do format, i'm getting the error info Windows was unable to format.

Please help me out to format the drive

Sumanth - Sep 28, 2009 12:18AM

Some times due to the virus attack the operating system can not access some partition. I have already experienced by this problem before 2 months and reinstalled XP. After that my problem was solved. Therefore u should first check wether its working in any computer or u can check it by using some Bootable Partition disk software. But i m not guaranteed for any solution. So try it yourself.

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Bassam Feb 24, 2010 11:42PM

Dear One's,

i have an external hard disk 160GB of Toshiba. Few days before it was working very fine but 6 days before it STOP detecting the power led is OK but i am not able to see the drives.... Can any 1 help me on this .... Please People help me....

jhinhel - Mar 7, 2010 07:28AM

i changed different os.,.,after that.,.,i .changed again my os but my laptop said.,.,that there is no hardik connected,or there is no harddisk detected.,.and it also said that, that is a fatal error.,.,.can u pls help mme/???teach me what to do next.,.,

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zebra Apr 8, 2010 11:21AM

I have a problem like this which I suspect is connected to the fact that the drive - a WD 1600 Caviar - was once partitioned between XP and Linux.

However, I can access it by loading a Linux "live" system from DVD ( Ubuntu in this case). I can then transfer the files I need to another drive.

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azme Apr 12, 2010 06:55AM

i tried with CD to install new window but its not working . Each time
prompt coming harddisk not found and press F3 to restart computer. please help me out with suggestions if i can save money to give to computer repairman.

thanks

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malli Sep 9, 2009 10:35AM

hi thanks

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wels Mar 25, 2010 10:14PM

hello, i also had your problem, and i changed my winxp cd...it seems that it is corrupted or what.....

SHAKIB - Mar 26, 2010 12:53AM

plz disable sata in boot ,then try...

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Mayu Jan 29, 2009 11:52PM

I have Connected Removable disk of 8GB but it not detected by computer

online jd - May 1, 2009 08:23PM

try checking the "disk management"

to go there:
right click "my computer"
click "manage"
now theres a new window that popped up, click the "disk management"

you should see your removable disk there. if not then.. i dont know, ask the vendor if it requires a drive support
and whats your computer specifications? give more details hehe

the pre - Apr 3, 2010 12:47AM

thank you very much

nidi - May 5, 2011 11:20PM

thanks for u r valueble information.....................

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liz May 5, 2009 07:17PM

With the downgrades from vista to Xp it could be a driver issue? - you will need to go to the laptop manufacturers website and get drivers for xp the main one you need, the one to get the HDD working is a RAID driver, you can download the rest after the install works.

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gopal123 1Posts Saturday March 13, 2010Registration date March 14, 2010Last seen Mar 14, 2010 01:13AM

pls help me.

how to reset the forgeted bios password. my laptop is fujitus siemens espreromo mobile D9500 model. phonix bios. pls help me

Serena - Nov 12, 2012 01:12PM

remove the CMOS battery for a few minutes, then put it back in. That should erase your password.

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dinesh Mar 22, 2010 07:00AM

after connecting the cd rom restart my computer operating systemnot found

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