My sister's HP Pavillion suddenly wouldn't boot, it comes up with the error message that there is no OS. I went into BIOS and tried to do a hard drive scan and I get the error message that "Hard Drive Does Not Exist". The computer is running Vista.
I took the drive out, put it in an external enclosure, plugged it into my laptop, and at first it recognized it, the volume label popped up, after that, nada. I tried a few disc utilities, they can't find the drive. In the first enclosure, the access light blinks briefly, I can hear the drive make some noise, then it does nothing.
I put the drive in another enclosure, this one continually cycles through the same noise I heard in the other enclosure, and seems like it turns itself on and off. Like my computer keeps reacting like a USB drive has been plugged in, then unplugged and the procedure repeats.
I have a brand new drive, I put it in the laptop and the laptop recognizes it has a drive in it, the BIOS drive test will run, and it asks for a boot disc.
I'm thinking this old drive is dead. Just looking for confirmations or maybe another way to test it?
Thanks in advance.
I took the drive out, put it in an external enclosure, plugged it into my laptop, and at first it recognized it, the volume label popped up, after that, nada. I tried a few disc utilities, they can't find the drive. In the first enclosure, the access light blinks briefly, I can hear the drive make some noise, then it does nothing.
I put the drive in another enclosure, this one continually cycles through the same noise I heard in the other enclosure, and seems like it turns itself on and off. Like my computer keeps reacting like a USB drive has been plugged in, then unplugged and the procedure repeats.
I have a brand new drive, I put it in the laptop and the laptop recognizes it has a drive in it, the BIOS drive test will run, and it asks for a boot disc.
I'm thinking this old drive is dead. Just looking for confirmations or maybe another way to test it?
Thanks in advance.