laptop not detecting hard drive!

i own a Acer 5630 laptop. one fine morning it gave me the error that operating system not found. this was followed by my network’s card name Broadcom Inc 2000 - 2004 all rights reserved. i thght it was windows usual “format me” message. so i tried to format from my windows cd but to my horror the cd drive wasnt working either!

i connected my harddrive thru a USB external drive to a PC but all my data was intact! so i backupped all my data and formatted C drive but still no use. i even placed another drive but still no use.

suggestionS?? so i can stop bugging my pal to let me use his pc to get on gupshup>? plzz?

Re: laptop not detecting hard drive!

It looks like a hardware error to me. Might be some thing wrong with mother board as your system is not detecting the hardware attached.

BIOS can be a problem … umm … but i don’t think so.

Anyways, just send it back to Acer and tell them to fix it for you. You might not want to fix all the hardware issues with it. But is it on a warranty?

Good luck :jhanda:

Re: laptop not detecting hard drive!

bro acer pakistan moved to dubai this year!! just when i had to get my laptop fixed! and yea the warranty expired 5 months back. yes ofcourse its a hardware problem.

yea but how can BIOS be fixed i am willing to fix that as well???

Re: laptop not detecting hard drive!

There is no cut and dry answer to your question , you need to use notebook not detecting hard drive in google and you will see many solution , one of them might work you might have to try many before you find the right solution , here the link to query I did for you.
notebook not detecting hard drive - Google Search

Re: laptop not detecting hard drive!

a very common problem
simple solution

remove hard drive and put it back again
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else if(try using the hard drive on different system)
{
it works, then problem could be ur mother board
else
doesnt work
}
else{
u need a new hard drive
end if

You sounds me a programmer.

Anyway ,I think problem is in ur motherboard.