Scaning Bios image in hard drive

Just answered a similar question. Did you set upthese passwords, or did some lame computer store geek do it? either way, you may have a BIOS sytem pass set up and need to know what that pass is. If repeatedly tap F2 or F10 when starting up it should take you to BIOS settings. If that is not the answer, and it windows password, you may have to image the hard drive in order to save documents on there and reinstall the drive. You can then view the image you saved (on another drive) to recover your docs.

Whenever you upgrade the BIOS on your notebook, a copy of the previous version is stored in the HP TOOLS partition of your hard disk drive. Many HP notebook computers have an emergency BIOS recovery feature that allows you to recover and install the last known good version of the BIOS from the hard drive, as long as the hard drive remains functional. This emergency recovery feature is separate from the BIOS and is designed to work in the event of a catastrophic BIOS failure.To recover an earlier version of the BIOS on your notebook:

1. Turn off the computer.
2. Plug the notebook into power using the power adapter.
3. Press and hold the Windows key and the B key down at the same time while the computer is off.
4. Still pressing those keys, press and hold down the Power button on the notebook for 3 seconds and then release the Power button and the keys. The screen remains blank for about 40 seconds before anything appears on the display. You might also hear beeping sounds. Eventually, an HP BIOS Update screen displays.NOTE:If the computer fails to display an HP BIOS Update screen, press and hold the Power button for 5 seconds to turn off the computer. Wait 5 seconds and try again. If, after repeated attempts, you cannot open the HP BIOS Update screen, your computer does not support this function or it has a hardware problem that is preventing the tool from opening.Figure 1: HP BIOS Update screen
5. When the BIOS has been recovered, a Continue Startup button displays and timer counts down. You can click Continue Startup to restart the computer or you can allow the timer to reach zero and the computer will restart automatically.Figure 2: HP BIOS Update screen
6. After restoring the BIOS, if the computer repeatedly displays a message that the BIOS has been reset, then perform the steps in HP BIOS Application Selected is Corrupt or Missing .
7. After restarting, Windows may display a message stating that the computer was improperly shut down or that a boot problem was detected. Read and respond to the screens to continue.

Not good. Check your bios for correct drive for boot up, but it sounds like yoru hard drive is not being read....

The bios is stored in the CMOS chip on motherboard not on the hard driver, the error message probably means it it scanning to find a hard drive to boot to. You should go into your BIOS and reset to factory defaults and see if this makes a diffrence. you may also have a failed hard drive which may need to be replaced.

your bios has been corrupted.

The AWARD BIOS has a similar procedure to AMI. To recover an AWARD BIOS you will need to create a bootable floppy diskette and add the desired BIOS file (we recommend using the most recent). Award BIOS's generally are in .BIN format, where as AMI was .ROM format. You will also add an AWARD flash utility (usually awdflash.exe) and an AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

The AWARD BIOS does not automatically restore the BIOS information to the 'system block' like the AMI BIOS does. You will need to add the commands necessary to flash the BIOS in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The system will run the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, which contains the flash instructions.

Note: 12345678.BIN represents the name of your BIOS.

Step by Step:
1. Create a bootable floppy diskette or bootable dos cd /usb drive
2. Copy the BIOS file and flash utility to the disk
3. Create an text file with any standard text editor and add the following lines

@ECHO OFF
awdflash 12345678.BIN /py/sn/f/cc/r

Exchange the awdflash with the name of whatever flash utility you are using, and replace the 12345678.BIN with the name of the BIOS file you are using. The parameters are explained here:

py = program yes
sn = save no
f = flash
cc = clear cmos
r = reboot

Remove disk and restart computer

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update the bios of motherboard, it seems that the bios file is missing somewhere and now the computer bios is searcing for it ..(on Hard drive)
so reinstall or update the bios it will fix the prob. otherwise if u say that the bios is working ok, then go to the bios and turn them to their Defaults, and restart.
good luck
shafky

"You will not find the BIOS on the hard drive.
It is stored on a chip directly on the motherboard."

You clearly have not researched this at all and pulled it out of your proverbial a$$!

Gigabyte uses this god forbidden technology to make it damn near impossible to recover from.

The motherboard indeed writes to the hard drive, but not in a user friendly manner, in fact it stores it in the hidden area of the hard drive where it finds it difficult to locate.

So far after 2 months of searching for an answer, I have concluded that gigabyte will receive no more money from me, ever again!

Does not answer your question I know, but I have failed to locate one after 2 months.

Ohh and replacement of bios chip is a no go as some brain dead technician gigabyte decided it be fun to solder it straight into the board!

You may need a new CMOS battery.
For now, you will most certainly need to reconfigure your BIOS as it is probably not recognizing your hard drive.
Your PC should tell you which key to use to enter your BIOS setup, such as ESC, DEL, F2 etc.  Press the appropriate key while booting to access the BIOS configuration.  From there, see if there is an option to set the hard drive to AUTO.
Also, it's possible that the BIOS is recognizing the hard drive, but your Master Boot Record (MBR) has been corrupted.  To fix this, insert your OS (windows) disk and load into a DOS command prompt via selecting the REPAIR option.  Once at your command prompt, type in FIXMBR, and press <ENTER>. It will warn that rewriting the MBR may cause problems...just continue.  Once successful, reboot your PC.
If that doesn't work, then you will probably need more help reconfiguring the BIOS, and may need to replace the small battery on your motherboard.

Open the hard drive bay and make sure the hard drive is properly seated. close bay

reboot and enter bios to see if hard drive is detected in bios, if the hard drive is detected and still will not boot use recovery console to recover the OS.<ALT><F10>

If the bios does not recognize tthe hard drive, replace hard drive.

Have a look in disk managment, Right click my computer>manage and look in the disk mangement section and see if it is there, if showing it may need to be activated by right clicking on it. If not press F2 or Del on start up and enter the bios and see if the bios is seeing your drive, you may have to press F12 or something similair to auto identify hard drives, then press F10 to save and exit for a re start