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raison_d'etre · 12-14-2011, 01:33 PM

I have a HP Pavillion G71. For some reason it does not find a hard drive installed. When I try to reinstall windows it goes to a screen that says loading windows and just site there doing nothing.

Could it be the hard drive drivers are bad or could the hard drive become unformatted/partitioned?

Zembonez · 12-14-2011, 01:38 PM

Your drive may need formatting - or it may have failed. Before going any further I would open up the case and make sure everything is connected well. Pay special attention to the cables between the motherboard and drives. I've had more than one PC somehow have a cable connection come loose on my workstations. It can happen.

plwhit · 12-14-2011, 01:55 PM

Does the BIOS detect a hard disk?

Asheville Native · 12-14-2011, 02:36 PM

Did some even trigger this, or did you just turn it on one day to be greeted with a "hard drive not found" press F1 to continue or F2 to enter setup? (or similar)

raison_d'etre · 12-14-2011, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Zembonez

Your drive may need formatting - or it may have failed. Before going any further I would open up the case and make sure everything is connected well. Pay special attention to the cables between the motherboard and drives. I've had more than one PC somehow have a cable connection come loose on my workstations. It can happen.

I checked the connections. Everything is connected.

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Originally Posted by plwhit

Does the BIOS detect a hard disk?

No, it does not.

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Originally Posted by Asheville Native

Did some even trigger this, or did you just turn it on one day to be greeted with a "hard drive not found" press F1 to continue or F2 to enter setup? (or similar)

One day it said "Hard disk not exist". No press F1 or F2

Zembonez · 12-14-2011, 03:51 PM

Sounds like the drive has failed. It's not all that uncommon.

You can buy a new drive from newegg.com (or locally) inexpensively and then add the old drive as a slave to see if you can retrieve any data. You may be able to reactivate it temporarily in "disk management".

NHDave · 12-14-2011, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Zembonez

Sounds like the drive has failed. It's not all that uncommon.

You can buy a new drive from newegg.com (or locally) inexpensively and then add the old drive as a slave to see if you can retrieve any data. You may be able to reactivate it temporarily in "disk management".

If the drive isn't being detected as it is now, installing it as a second drive will not produce different results, disk management will also get you nothing, it can only manage disks that are detected.

NJBest · 12-14-2011, 04:32 PM

Install the drive as a second drive in another computer. See if it works.

Skunk Workz · 12-14-2011, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by NHDave

If the drive isn't being detected as it is now, installing it as a second drive will not produce different results, disk management will also get you nothing, it can only manage disks that are detected.

It will if the SATA port is dead on the MB, had a few of those over the years.

Most likely it's the drive though.

NHDave · 12-14-2011, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Skunk Workz

It will if the SATA port is dead on the MB, had a few of those over the years.

Most likely it's the drive though.

Odds are highly in favor of a bad drive, small chance it's the motherboard or cable but your right, that shouldn't be overlooked.