BIOHD-2 Error Code but HDD boots fine in other PCs

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DrSlickDaddy

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I left my HP Pavilion Desktop running last night. This morning, I turned it on and it was frozen. I had to do a hard reset (held the power button). When I went to turn it back on, it said "no boot volume detected". So I started with the hard drive. Pulled it out, got the data off it, reformatted it, and reinstalled windows 7. I put it back in the original PC and tried to start it a few times. Some times it froze, sometimes it just went to a black screen. So I put the hard drive in my brother's desktop and it booted right into windows just fine. I put it back into my computer and ran the built in HP diagnostics. It gave me error code BIOHD-2 and said no HDD was detected. I've tried plugging it into different SATA ports on the mobo and using different cords. It gets power and spins but won't work for some reason. I've been working at this all day and it's been quite frustrating. ANY help would be much appreciated at this point. THANKS!
 
Does it detect it in the BIOS? Sounds like a Motherboard problem if it runs fine in another computer.

Did you try clearing the CMOS? There's a round battery on your motherboard. Carefully take it out and reinsert it. Do this while the system is off and unplugged, and your other hand is touching the metal part of the case. This is very important because static electricity can damage other parts of your computer.
 
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claptonman said:
Does it detect it in the BIOS? Sounds like a Motherboard problem if it runs fine in another computer.

Did you try clearing the CMOS? There's a round battery on your motherboard. Carefully take it out and reinsert it. Do this while the system is off and unplugged, and your other hand is touching the metal part of the case. This is very important because static electricity can damage other parts of your computer.
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How can I check if it detects it in the BIOS? Stupid question, I know.
 
Try This..
Plug it into your brother's computer.
If it's windows 7 right click computer and click manage
create a new partition give it 50gb of the un-allocated space.
get an esata off his computer or remove his hd and plug in yours
load win 7 to that new partition on his computer
then bring it to your computer
win7 will load all generic drivers at that point.
you'll have to set it as a primary drive and you will have to give it a drive letter
hopefully this will allow the bios to see it a separate drive

see if it isn't loading the hard drive at all. get yourself a new sata wire. you may be able to go from the ide wire..
I do not know how to do the switch to the ide wire

figure out the bios software and see if you can get an update for it
 
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