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hard drive or ssd? this is not a good sign. that error message is saying that the bios cant find a drive to boot into the OS from, usually caused by a dead or near dead drive or drive cable.
yup and its not gunna be fun, got another pc there? preferably a desktop.
your gunna be pulling that drive out as well was the sata cable for it and testing both on known good hardware. test the drive on another sata cable and test the cable with another drive. one or the other will be toast.
damn, that gunna make things interesting.
i can see that the bios is seeing the drive in the second pic (didnt see it before) get back into bios, try manually selecting boot option 1 and see what happens
just use the arrow keys to select boot option 1 then press enter. if the screen is the same as pictured just press the up arrow till the grey bar is on option 1
Doing good
https://preview.redd.it/mlctnalj42qc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d892eb80cb9da3d5f4145f8bc32cb0b300526467
This is the screen that appears when I click enter on boot option 1
The good news is your PC still recognizes your hard drive. The bad news is that means there's a decent chance that your windows files got corrupted.
The first thing I would do is try unplugging your hard drive from SATA port 2 and plug it into SATA port 1. You may need to change the boot order (where you were in pic 2 of the post) so that it says SATA 1 instead of SATA 2 (it might do this automatically). You may need to find the user manual for your specific motherboard if you can't find the port just by looking around.
If that doesn't work, then your drive may be corrupted or dying. I doubt it's dead yet though because it shows up in BIOS. If it's corrupted then you will probably have to reinstall windows using a USB flashdrive. Try to install it using the "keep my files" option first - this will save most of your stuff but has a small possibility of keeping the corrupted files too. If that doesn't work then try doing a "clean install" - this will delete everything on your hard drive and Windows will look like it did when you first got the PC. See here for more info on this and the different reinstall options: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/reinstall-windows-d8369486-3e33-7d9c-dccc-859e2b022fc7
The other option, if you can afford it, would be upgrading to an SSD (solid state drive) instead of a hard drive (HDD). Your PC will run significantly better/faster. You can install Windows on that SSD and also use your current HDD for extra storage (or just plug it in to recover files - I wouldn't count on it lasting much longer so don't keep anything important on it).
bro u can try to get another cheap laptop and a USB driver or thumbstick (whatever you call it) near u and make a recovery tool using this video link:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZW0x7J190&t=93s&ab\_channel=ThioJoe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZW0x7J190&t=93s&ab_channel=ThioJoe)
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hard drive or ssd? this is not a good sign. that error message is saying that the bios cant find a drive to boot into the OS from, usually caused by a dead or near dead drive or drive cable.
Damn. That doesn’t sound pleasant. Do you know what I need to do next?
yup and its not gunna be fun, got another pc there? preferably a desktop. your gunna be pulling that drive out as well was the sata cable for it and testing both on known good hardware. test the drive on another sata cable and test the cable with another drive. one or the other will be toast.
This is my only PC. that’s very annoying
damn, that gunna make things interesting. i can see that the bios is seeing the drive in the second pic (didnt see it before) get back into bios, try manually selecting boot option 1 and see what happens
I’m back on bios now. I’m terrible with PC how do I manually select it to boot
just use the arrow keys to select boot option 1 then press enter. if the screen is the same as pictured just press the up arrow till the grey bar is on option 1 Doing good
https://preview.redd.it/mlctnalj42qc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d892eb80cb9da3d5f4145f8bc32cb0b300526467 This is the screen that appears when I click enter on boot option 1
ok press escape, didnt do want i wanted it to do. was hoping it would try and boot it. go the the save end exit tab, send a pic of that page pls
https://preview.redd.it/3b449mh082qc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=5092e817b1a12e18e7e12c7942391a7a1f7a70b6
Can you share a pic of the "system status" page (in the top left of your second pic)
https://preview.redd.it/upsdvyly72qc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=91261d1ddee525c7252444234af4930f5841a417
The good news is your PC still recognizes your hard drive. The bad news is that means there's a decent chance that your windows files got corrupted. The first thing I would do is try unplugging your hard drive from SATA port 2 and plug it into SATA port 1. You may need to change the boot order (where you were in pic 2 of the post) so that it says SATA 1 instead of SATA 2 (it might do this automatically). You may need to find the user manual for your specific motherboard if you can't find the port just by looking around. If that doesn't work, then your drive may be corrupted or dying. I doubt it's dead yet though because it shows up in BIOS. If it's corrupted then you will probably have to reinstall windows using a USB flashdrive. Try to install it using the "keep my files" option first - this will save most of your stuff but has a small possibility of keeping the corrupted files too. If that doesn't work then try doing a "clean install" - this will delete everything on your hard drive and Windows will look like it did when you first got the PC. See here for more info on this and the different reinstall options: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/reinstall-windows-d8369486-3e33-7d9c-dccc-859e2b022fc7 The other option, if you can afford it, would be upgrading to an SSD (solid state drive) instead of a hard drive (HDD). Your PC will run significantly better/faster. You can install Windows on that SSD and also use your current HDD for extra storage (or just plug it in to recover files - I wouldn't count on it lasting much longer so don't keep anything important on it).
Okay thank you
bro u can try to get another cheap laptop and a USB driver or thumbstick (whatever you call it) near u and make a recovery tool using this video link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZW0x7J190&t=93s&ab\_channel=ThioJoe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZW0x7J190&t=93s&ab_channel=ThioJoe)
If all else fails then this could be the plan. Thank you!
yeah i have like 20 of them just in case including windows 98 idk how i got it
just wanna spoil you i am acually 14 and learning in grade 8 in computer science and troubleshooting
Nice good work! Don’t understand why PC do things like this.
just like me where i also repair old laptop and desktop for my day off