Internal Hard Drive still not working.?

Question

I have a novatech Nspire gaming laptop, It's not old, roughly 1 and a half years old. But something happed to it while i was browsing the Internet, Suddenly the screen went black and a number of beeps coming from under the laptop.

After checking the source i found it was the Internal hard drive, I look over the Internet on my fathers laptop. And with the information given I decided that the internal hard drive had stopped working.
Every time i attempted to turn the laptop on the hard drive would emit several beeps however it wouldn't start, it only brought me to the black screen where it would say
'Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key_'

Now I got a new hard drive and replaced the old one The beeps stop... However it still brings me to the black screen saying the same thing.
Pressing F2 to get into the BIOS screen it gave me these options in the boot section
'Boot option Priorities'
Boot option #1 [SATA: Hitachi HTS5...]
Boot option #2 [SATA: SlimtypeDVD...]
Boot option #3 [Realtek PXE BO5D00...]

Those are my only options, In the advanced screen i get the SATA Configuration which has it Set to AHCI, Which i changed to IDE.
With those settings I get the same message

'Reboot and select proper boot device...'

I tried putting in the Windows 7 starter DVD. It just says

'CDBOOT: Couldn't find NTLDR'

Someone told me to change the settings in BIOS. So I did

Boot Configuration:
Fast boot [Disabled]
PXE boot [Enabled]

The message this time is
Intel UNDI, PEX-2.1 (Built083)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel croporation

Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Series V2.38Beta (11/23/10 13:23:12) *not really all that important, but here is the new message*
PXE-E61: Media test Failure, check cable

PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE
Reboot and select proper Boot device...

Pressing any button it just repeats, Like it always has, Enter the Windows 7 DVD... It says the same thing but this time with, yep... NTLDR Not found ¬¬

If anyone can tell me what the problem is and if i am able to fix it or not... I would be very grateful.

Answer 1

You must check in the DOS if the files of Windows 7 has install.exe

Answer 2

disable PXE booting that is for workstations across a LAN

never enable it ever again.



The ACHI/IDE operation should only affect XP

you should leave it set to the high performance ACHI value so

PUT IT BACK AND LEAVE IT ALONE



to boot the cd rom you need a PROPER copy of windows.



you can usually press F12 at BOOT to see the BOOT menu and choose the

DVD/CD drive. This sometimes is prevented from actually displaying some

BOOTAble media by other BIOS options, in your case its looks ok to do it that way.



the NTLDR error occurs when a CDrom does not have a BOOT sector

this is usally because some twit has created a data cd by dragging files to it.

a BOOTable cd like an original windows one is TWO Session and must be

DUPLICATED using the DISK COPY function of cd rewriting software NOT the

DragnDrop style DATA cd projects.



put in a proper windows BOOT cd and it will find the NT Loader and you wont get

the NTLDR error.



if you think your windows cd is genuine then ask another question and state the fact.

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for your information



a new HD is BLANK

in order for it to be BOOTable

you need to do the following



1 partition it. These partitions become the drives, C: D: (if you choose to make 2 parts)

2 after partitioning the Parts need FORMATTING

3 after formatting the the first one,the C: can then have an OPSYS installed which creates

...the BOOT sector containing the NT Loader.



the windows install cd knows all this and will guide you through the process

the temptation to create one whopping big c: drive should be avoided.

having a nice sized d: drive for backups and data such as music is always a

safe way to store your stuff.

Answer 3

Lawrence is right in simple terms new hard drives are blank and do not come with any operating system. You need to use your recovery disks that were given with the computer or would have been prompted to make when you first got it. If you haven't any you could order some from Novatech, or you could download a copy of windows 7 - you should still be able to use the license key from your previous windows install.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/download-windows-7-iso-official-32-bit-and-64-bit-direct-download-links/



If you can get the recovery disks this should be a simpler install as they should already be set up for your Laptop, with the windows 7 downloads you would still have to download the drivers from the Novatech website

HTH

David

Answer 4

For that, an inner demanding force is most suitable. Your exterior force must be constrained to USB speeds. Externals like that are tremendous for storing song, images and video, yet video games have too a lot documents to run from an exterior with a lot fulfillment, except it truly is an older sport with constrained images. installation a secondary inner demanding force is common. you'll prefer to ascertain in case your computing device makes use of SATA or IDE drives to make confident you purchase the right variety.

Answer 5

Revert ur bios settings back to factory and then go and change the boot priority #1 From the Sata hitachi (which is tr HDD) to the sata slimline DVD drive.. I think I was doin that cycle cuz it kept trying to boot from the hdd