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yvonne Posted on Jan 22, 2013
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HP pavillion ze4900. Laptop says cannot find hard drive. Bios says no IDE found.

Windows xp operating system will not boot. Bios say no IDE. and i have a boot disk that says no hard drive found. What should i do?

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tom19511

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  • Posted on Dec 26, 2007

SOURCE: Operating system not found, hard disk not found message showing in IBMT20

Your hard drive is most likely bad or the ribbon cable is not connected.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Apr 11, 2008

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Can you just clarify that you installed XP with the new IDE drive installed in the notebook and that you have selected disc 0 in the bios as IDE and that it is aslo set to boot from that drive?

What you are describing also fits the symptoms of installing XP on a SATA drive without installing SATA drivers first. (XP doesn't install SATA drivers, Vista does.)

So this does sound like a bios setting issue

rickyostrom

Ricky Ostrom

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  • Posted on Nov 19, 2008

SOURCE: thinkpad 390x 2626, won't boot from cd drive

Try pressing F12 at startup, you should get a boot option.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 13, 2009

SOURCE: operating system not found media test failure will not reboot aspire 3680

hi..try to remove unplug or plug in the Hard Drive,, if cant work you or nothing happens you need to re-place the hard drive.about files theirs nothing ways to recover the files if the Hard Drive is totally defective..Thanks..and GOOD LUCK...^_^

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Aug 11, 2010

SOURCE: While trying to boot my hp Pavilion dm1 I get

Typically this is caused by a corrupt windows file which can be caused by a bad disk drive or a software error that has screwed up the disk indexes.

Use your Win7 disk and do a system repair (NOT INSTALL). Often this will clear up any problem.

After that it gets complicated and you probably will need the assistance of a local computer store.

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Problem with HP pavillion ze4900 harddrive. bios says no IDE device when trying to find hard drive.
Hello,

You can try to boot from CD/DVD drive with XP cd to see if the install program can find the hard drive. Try to use default setting in the BIOS.

Sounds to me like your hard drive crashed. I had one that did this and same thing. You can either replace the hard drive, use an external hard drive/flash drive (load the os and download laptop drivers) or use a cd based OS like Knoppix.

If you need help with the XP CD let me know.

I hope this helps!!!
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Go into the BIOS and disable the SATA drive (enable IDE emulation), this will make XP think it is a IDE/PATA hard disk. Then you can install XP normally. When Windows has been installed then install all the device drivers (including the SATA driver), then shut down and boot up and got into the BIOS and enable the SATA drive.
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