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
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 !!
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
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.
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
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
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...
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
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..
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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
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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