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Getting the non system disk error. The HDD was pulled and placed in another identical laptop and it booted perfect. The boot order is set correctly but the HDD self test in the bios/tools screen is grayed out with the good drive in the system. I tryed resetting the bios by removing battery and cmos battery connection overnight. It did not help. I guessing its a motherboard to HDD connection issue. Since this is a laptop it probably means a new mother board is needed. Any thoughts or other suggestions as to what to try?
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Hi and welcome to Extreme Tech Support - Free PC Help.

One thing to try which will at least prove the BIOS OK or not. If the laptop has a working DVD drive select that as the first boot device and try a Linux or other bootable disk in the drive, if it boots from that then most of the system is OK, but proving then that it is most likely a connection issue for the hard drive.

 

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