paultap123

Guys, First off, thanks for all your suggestions yesterday. I printed them all off and set off for home to spend a couple of hours cursing at my PC. When I powered up the PC, pressed 'Del' for setup and checked the boot options in the BIOS I could see there were 3 options for boot device as opposed to the 2 that had been there over the weekend. When I went into the 3rd option to change it from 'Disabled' I now had 3 boot devices to choose from. I selected the 'new' 3rd one and booted up the PC. Everything came up fine! Windows initialised; hard drive available; all data accessible. It would appear that the only 2 options I had to boot up previously were: 1. DVD drive. 2. Generic Storage Device I now had a 3rd option which is apparently the hard drive. Obviously I'm delighted that my PC and Hard Drive are working again but I'd like to know why (for the 2nd time is as many years) this problem has occurred. Is there anything I should check while I have the machine working again? Thanks again for all your help on this so far, Paul

Hi there, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo 603 PC running Windows XP Home Edition. Over the weekend I switched on the PC and get a black screen telling me that it cannot find a device to Boot from and to insert boot disk and hit any key. Pressed Del when I restarted the PC and checked that the PC is trying to boot from the Hard Drive. It is. The PC is a couple of years old but I had a similar problem about 2 months after I bought it. An engineer came out and managed to fix it (he claimed I wasn't waiting long enough for it to find the hard drive and that it fixed itself!). At the time he said that it was due to over-heating on the controller(?) for the hard drive and not to leave the PC for long periods of time. He also told me if it happened again I'd have to dump the existing hard drive and replace it with a brand new one. Basically I think the PC cannot detect the hard drive. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I'd like to think that this is something that can be repaired rather than having to dump the disk. Anyone any experience of this type of problem? Any help or thoughts on my problem greatfully received! Thanks, Paul