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Gateway laptop can't find drive

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Chris - Jun 2, 2011 at 05:48 PM
jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020 - Jun 3, 2011 at 06:11 AM
Hello,


My gateway laptop has lost its SATA hard drive. The BIOS sees the drive correctly but Windows won't boot up to it. If I run the WinXP installer it doesn't see the drive either.
This drive has worked on this laptop for over a year. No changes were made to cause the problem; one day it worked and the next day it didn't.

All assistance will be appreciated.

Chris.
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jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020
Jun 3, 2011 at 06:11 AM
Hello,

May be the SATA settings got changed in the BIOS.

Try this 1

Go to BIOS --> Load default settings --> Set the first boot device as your

"Hard disk" --> Save the settings and exit from the BIOS.

Good Luck
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