Is the hard drive making clicking or grinding noises?
If so, turn off the computer immediately to avoid further damage to the drive. Call us for further consultation at 1-888-241-3282 If no noises are heard, start up to ensure that the computer works. Did you begin to experience problems after a power surge? If so, there is a high probability that your drive suffered from an electronic failure. If this is the case, your hard drive will either not work at all, or will not be detected in the BIOS. In this case, you will need professional assistance. Is the hard drive being detected in your computer BIOS? If it is not, this usually indicates a hardware failure. *If your drive is detected in the BIOS, but you get a message like “no OS present, insert bootable disk”, try the following: -Try booting from a floppy, then switching to drive C. Run a “dir” command to try to see the files. -If you get a message like “invalid media, abort, retry, fail”, press abort and try loading the Fdisk utility from your bootable disk. -Use Fdisk to view partitio
