computer wont boot ?hard drive?

elobire · 10-21-2009, 07:22 PM

i just got a old pc to take apart and learn how they go together, today i took the hard drive out of it and tried it on a harddrive i bought (one mentioned in some of my posts). for some reason i was getting no display from the motherboard, so i decided to put the HDD back into the other computer and ask my ICT teacher tommoro if he knows why.
problem is when i start the pc up now i get:

searching for boot record from floppy..not found
searching for boot record from SCSI..not found

Drive not ready
insert BOOTA diskette in A:

anyone know why? i have connected everything back up the way it was (i think).
also does anyone know any reasons why i wasnt getting any display from the other MB? its got a built in graphics card, and i tried one i had in the post?

-Elobire

Elimin8or · 10-22-2009, 12:08 PM

Go into your BIOS. Make sure it detects the hard drive, and set your boot sequence so that the hard drive is at the top. That ought to fix things a bit. Also, chances are the old hard drive is broken..

elobire · 10-22-2009, 04:30 PM

ok il try that. not sure if its broken i can hear the thing inside moving and feel it vibrating.

elobire · 10-23-2009, 12:50 PM

still doesnt detect the HDD i think its broke

khaj_vah · 10-23-2009, 04:19 PM

If your windows is working it means that your hard drive is working

10-21-2009, 07:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
elobire New Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 21	computer wont boot ?hard drive? i just got a old pc to take apart and learn how they go together, today i took the hard drive out of it and tried it on a harddrive i bought (one mentioned in some of my posts). for some reason i was getting no display from the motherboard, so i decided to put the HDD back into the other computer and ask my ICT teacher tommoro if he knows why. problem is when i start the pc up now i get: searching for boot record from floppy..not found searching for boot record from SCSI..not found Drive not ready insert BOOTA diskette in A: anyone know why? i have connected everything back up the way it was (i think). also does anyone know any reasons why i wasnt getting any display from the other MB? its got a built in graphics card, and i tried one i had in the post? -Elobire __________________ if vista's slogan is "life without walls", then why is it so dam hard to run anything?

10-22-2009, 12:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
Elimin8or Diamond Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Don't turn around... Age: 17 Posts: 2,492	Go into your BIOS. Make sure it detects the hard drive, and set your boot sequence so that the hard drive is at the top. That ought to fix things a bit. Also, chances are the old hard drive is broken.. __________________ My Rig: Mobo: K9N4 SLi \| CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ @ 2.7GHz \|HS+F: Stock \| GPU: EVGA 8600GTS \| RAM: 4GB DDR2 800MHz \| HDD: 120GB \| PSU: 420W Raidmax \| Case: Raidmax Scorpio \| OS: XP Pro SP3 5 Favorite Games I'm Playing: Assassins Creed \| Mirrors Edge \| Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare \| ArmA2 \| R6: Vegas 2 \|

10-22-2009, 04:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
elobire New Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 21	ok il try that. not sure if its broken i can hear the thing inside moving and feel it vibrating. __________________ if vista's slogan is "life without walls", then why is it so dam hard to run anything?

10-23-2009, 12:50 PM	#4 (permalink)
elobire New Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 21	still doesnt detect the HDD i think its broke __________________ if vista's slogan is "life without walls", then why is it so dam hard to run anything?

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khaj_vah New Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Armenia,Yerevan Posts: 15	If your windows is working it means that your hard drive is working

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