I have a problem and don't know how to do a search for it.
Here's the situation.
I have a Compaq Presario CQ56 notebook. The hard drive failed completely. So I bought a new hard drive. I put the drive in the notebook and it seems to be working just fine. But it won't boot up.
I have the original restore disks on CD. There is a set of 5 of these. I put those in the CD and it booted up on those and installed all 5 of them on the hard drive. But then when I go to boot up again it just says, "No bootable device".
What am I doing wrong?
Did I need to format the drive as a bookable disk first? And if so how do I go about doing that?
It claimed to have formatted this drive when it re-installed these 5 recovery disks. But it still won't recognize the HD as being bootable?
How do I fix this problem?
Thanks.
P.S. I did a diagnostic test from the BIOS and the Hard Drive tests just fine. It also seems to have had no problem copying the 5 CDs to the Hard Drive. It's just not recognizing the Hard Drive as being bootable.
Here's the situation.
I have a Compaq Presario CQ56 notebook. The hard drive failed completely. So I bought a new hard drive. I put the drive in the notebook and it seems to be working just fine. But it won't boot up.
I have the original restore disks on CD. There is a set of 5 of these. I put those in the CD and it booted up on those and installed all 5 of them on the hard drive. But then when I go to boot up again it just says, "No bootable device".
What am I doing wrong?
Did I need to format the drive as a bookable disk first? And if so how do I go about doing that?
It claimed to have formatted this drive when it re-installed these 5 recovery disks. But it still won't recognize the HD as being bootable?
How do I fix this problem?
Thanks.
P.S. I did a diagnostic test from the BIOS and the Hard Drive tests just fine. It also seems to have had no problem copying the 5 CDs to the Hard Drive. It's just not recognizing the Hard Drive as being bootable.