hard drive not found

ugod355 · 12-03-2005, 09:37 PM

On my brother's laptop when he starts it up he gets an error that reads

Primary hard disk drive 0 not found

No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility

Its a Dell Inspiron 8000 that runs windows xp. How do you fix this problem?

Thanks,

Charlie

**linderman** · 12-04-2005, 05:13 AM

Charlie:

go into the bios and check to be sure the hard drive gets recognised by the bios / when looking around in the bios you should be able to review the hard drives on the system as well as the boot order / make sure the boot order is preoperly set floppy / hard drive / cd-rom

regards

joe

ugod355 · 12-04-2005, 09:49 AM

Well I got it to boot running in safe mode, is their anything I can check/fix while in safe mode to get the computer to boot properly. Also I can hear the harddrive making clicking sounds, which sounds like it is struggling to operate.

Thanks

**linderman** · 12-04-2005, 10:22 AM

I would boot the computer using the win cd and enter the recovery console / then run chkdisk on the drive ]

here is a complete "how to" (look for chkdsk section)

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q229716

regards

joe

12-03-2005, 09:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
ugod355 Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 27 OS: WinXP	hard drive not found On my brother's laptop when he starts it up he gets an error that reads Primary hard disk drive 0 not found No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility Its a Dell Inspiron 8000 that runs windows xp. How do you fix this problem? Thanks, Charlie

12-04-2005, 05:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,432 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Charlie: go into the bios and check to be sure the hard drive gets recognised by the bios / when looking around in the bios you should be able to review the hard drives on the system as well as the boot order / make sure the boot order is preoperly set floppy / hard drive / cd-rom regards joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

12-04-2005, 10:22 AM	#4 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,432 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	I would boot the computer using the win cd and enter the recovery console / then run chkdisk on the drive ] here is a complete "how to" (look for chkdsk section) http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q229716 regards joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

12-04-2005, 09:49 AM	#3 (permalink)
ugod355 Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 27 OS: WinXP	Well I got it to boot running in safe mode, is their anything I can check/fix while in safe mode to get the computer to boot properly. Also I can hear the harddrive making clicking sounds, which sounds like it is struggling to operate. Thanks