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Error: No Boot Disk

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So yeah, going to be a fun night. Running the diagnostic thing now, imagine it is going to be the hard drive. Do hard drives normally die in a couple years? Any advice on an easy fix if it is? Any words of sympathy?
 
The diagnostic tells me I have no hard drive installed.
 
So yeah, going to be a fun night. Running the diagnostic thing now, imagine it is going to be the hard drive. Do hard drives normally die in a couple years? Any advice on an easy fix if it is? Any words of sympathy?

Not normally no.
My HD failed last year.
The fix for me, was an excuse to upgrade my entire system.

New HD's are fairly cheap, maybe consider getting a SSD.

No other real fix though.
 
The diagnostic tells me I have no hard drive installed.

That has happened to me with my laptop. The cable from the drive wasn't connected to the computer correctly.It happened when I changed a board.
 
Hard drives don't usually die quietly. There's usually some warning. If it's not in the BIOS, reseat it.
 
Hard drives don't usually die quietly. There's usually some warning. If it's not in the BIOS, reseat it.

Yeah, I am going into the guts tomorrow. Kinda peeved tonight, so not ****ing with it right now.
 
Two possibilities: a loose cable or a dead drive.
 
Any possibility you picked up a boot sector virus?
 
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