Hard drive not found
I went to boot up my laptop yesterday and noticed that it made a funny noise, like the fan wouldn't start or something was wrong with the harddrive. Well, it never booted, and said that the Operating System was not found. I put in the XP restore disk, which has always worked miracles in the past, and it would not let me repair or reinstall XP because it could not find my hard drive.
I am using a laptop and have never opened the case. It is a HP Pavilion ze4500, running (or supposed to be running) XP. I did not receive any other errors messages when I started it up, nor did I get any when I shut it down. It no longer makes the noise when I turn it on, but it does not find the drive.
Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance.
I am using a laptop and have never opened the case. It is a HP Pavilion ze4500, running (or supposed to be running) XP. I did not receive any other errors messages when I started it up, nor did I get any when I shut it down. It no longer makes the noise when I turn it on, but it does not find the drive.
Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance.
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/manualCategory?lc=en&cc=us&product=385178
Hard Drive White Paper file has more info which may be of use.