a friend of mine just gave me a pc, took out his old hard drive which was trashed, placed a new one in and it worked fine. there was some files left that i had to pull off the old drive, so switched those 2 around again got the files of, went to switch back and now i get a error, on either hard drive i try to use. the error is right at start up, after the info on the vid card appears:


Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device.

I went into bios, and it is not detecting the hard drive at all.

any help would be nice, thanks in advance.

Hi welcome to PCHF So there is 2 hard dirves in the PC? Did you set the jumpers on the hard drive's as a master and slave? If you plug in 1 drive at a time will it see it in the bios?

Can you hear the hardrive spin up when you turn the PC on? if the PC has 2 HDD port try it on the other one to see if it detects it. also check that none of the pins where bent when plugging the drive in.Sound like the hard drive may be buggered

The hard drives spin up power is working( first thought was i dident get the power cord/or the connection cords everything is tight, pins on hard drives and the motherbord look to be ok. i can also take the new hard drive, and connect it to this pc and it works fine lol.

That indicates a definite problem with that hard drive must be faulty