Well my computer is kind of old and lately when I turn it on it's been making a weird clicking noise for maybe 5 minutes before saying DISC BOOT FAILURE PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISC AND TRY AGAIN. It does this maybe 90% of the time but I can eventually get it on. Anyone know why this is? I got it reformatted (70 bucks I should have just bought a windows disc and done it myself) a few months ago which makes this even more odd.
In BIOS, configure it so that the Hard Drive is the first to boot.
How do I do that?
[url]http://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom[/url]
Just make the hard drive #1, instead of Cd-Rom.
Your harddrive is dead.
Any reccomendation for a new hard drive. That BIOS thing doesn't even say how to open that BIOS setup utility.
What's your budget/how much space do you need?
1TB for 85$, 500Gb for 50$.
You hit DEL to open Bios.
I think I can pick out a hard drive actually. But the problem I am having is when to hit delete.
[QUOTE=Abbadon3;16535347]I think I can pick out a hard drive actually. But the problem I am having is when to hit delete.[/QUOTE]
when the screen says "Hit [key] to enter setup"
where key is some key
hit that key a lot untill the bios screen goes away.
It's usually either Tab, Esc, Del, or one of the F keys (usually F8-F12 or in some cases F1)
You know with really old HP desktops they have a hard time seeing large hard drives. I ran into this issue upgrading from a 40gb IDE hard drive to a 500gb IDE hard drive. The boot order did not matter at all, and updating the BIOS did not help either, I would always get DISC BOOT FAILURE PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISC AND TRY AGAIN, the solution to the issue was setting the computer to a slow boot, versus a quick boot. This allows the computer time to detect / "see" the hard drive and successfully boot.
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