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Last answer on Nov 9, 2009 3:05:33 am GMT mandy, on Oct 28, 2008 3:53:44 pm GMT 
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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

Configuration: ACER ASPIRE 5570Z...DUAL CORE...INTEL PROCESSOR T2080....WIN XP PRO SP3...

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1

xpcman, on Oct 28, 2008 5:19:25 pm GMT
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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.

   
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Bemith, on May 24, 2009 6:02:15 pm BST
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Perfect. Saved my life

   
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ome1217, on Nov 16, 2008 11:07:32 pm GMT
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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.

   
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Pranav, on Jan 9, 2009 7:53:39 am GMT
  • +4

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

   
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kims, on Jan 13, 2009 10:08:44 am GMT
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Thanks it really worked!!!!

   
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Abhi, on Mar 14, 2009 9:25:04 pm GMT
  • +5

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...

   
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sahil, on May 5, 2009 12:34:49 am BST
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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

   
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enriko, on Apr 18, 2009 5:53:32 pm BST
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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

   
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online jd, on May 2, 2009 1:32:18 am BST
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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

   
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amakus, on May 7, 2009 11:20:01 am BST
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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...

   
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Ravi, on Jun 23, 2009 5:23:39 pm BST

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.

   
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DML, on Sep 19, 2009 8:30:59 pm BST
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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

   
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deeogie, on Oct 26, 2009 12:28:12 pm GMT
  • +1

Hey DML

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

thanx

   
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basim, on Dec 30, 2008 11:38:57 am GMT
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I have the seme problem you should get sofware from your laptop company site (sata download) and then open this file and instell it inside flopy and then reboot from the flopy after that you will find your hard dick do that and Im sure you will fixed your problim

   
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Willy, on Jan 8, 2009 11:36:16 am GMT

Hello I really couldn't understand what you were saying because of the spelling errors can u please help me out

   
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Mayu, on Jan 30, 2009 4:52:03 am GMT
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I have Connected Removable disk of 8GB but it not detected by computer

   
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online jd, on May 2, 2009 1:23:09 am BST

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

   
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Magesh, on Feb 28, 2009 5:55:57 pm GMT
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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

   
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Sumanth, on Sep 28, 2009 5:18:57 am BST

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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onlinejd, on May 2, 2009 1:37:43 am BST
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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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liz, on May 6, 2009 12:17:06 am BST
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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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jane, on May 19, 2009 6:02:10 am BST
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Check out following resource that may help you to find solution:

http://free-tips-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/01/hard-drive-not-­recognized-found.html

   
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BLooDSHoT_420, on Jun 6, 2009 2:38:21 pm BST
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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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More, on Jun 23, 2009 8:53:53 am BST
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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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Rockermom, on Jul 17, 2009 11:26:52 am BST

Hey Thanks people. This problem has been driving me crazy for days. All I was able to do was install Ubuntu. Which worked but not too familiar and unable to use some programs. So what I had to do was SATA Disable in the bios. And ye ha was able to format and install Windows XP. Thanks.

   
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malli, on Sep 9, 2009 3:35:22 pm BST

Hi thanks

   
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arya, on Sep 14, 2009 10:53:37 pm BST
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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

   
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ashh, on Sep 27, 2009 11:21:08 am BST

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

   
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 javier, on Nov 9, 2009 3:05:33 am GMT

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

   
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crazyseidj, on Oct 27, 2009 3:56:43 am GMT
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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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