Disk Error - Remove Dis

[canwax]

We recently moved house. The computer was carefully packed into one of our vehicles and now our computer won't work!

The error message is the one you get when there is a "Non-Operating Disk" in the disk drive - however, there is no disk in the drive. We put one in and took it out to make sure.

We can't seem to get past this screen. Tried doing and F6 while it was booting up but that didn't work either.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[~Candy~]

Hi and welcome. Must have been tough moving the house

Can you access the bios setup and be sure the hard drive shows there. The cmos battery may be low depending on how long it took you to move the house

 

[canwax]

How do I get to the bios setup - isn't that by pressing one of the function keys when you first start up?

 

[~Candy~]

Yes, usually F 1, F 2, DEL, if you are unfortunate enough to have a Compaq, F 10.

 

[canwax]

Tried that a few times, now I get a E0301 Keyboard Error and in the bottom left hand corner it says F1 boot.
???????

 

[~Candy~]

You are hitting the bios setup key too early if you are receiving a keyboard error. What happens if you hit F 1?

 

[Bob Cerelli]

Depending on the computer you have, you might not need to get to the CMOS to see what hard drive you have. If it shows the drives, including CD ROMS, during POST, that should be good enough.

Also, can you boot with a plain old boot floppy and see the drive.

Typically what happens during a move is not so much electrical (like CMOS not "remembering" the hard drive) but physical (the power or data connectors to the hard drive have worked their way loose) or the drive itself has been bumped so much and is now defective. If CMOS would loose it's memory from a simple move, this would make it very difficult for most vendors to ship computers.