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Likely internal hard drive is failing. Usually it is easy to replace hard drive but full setup may take a while. You may also loose all data from original hard drive. Look for professional if that data is important to you
Good day Ken Markham
If your "Default Boot Device" is your hard drive and it is missing, then your machine will not start, you may need to have a technical person look on your machine for you.
This can happen if you have non-bootable media in the default boot device (i.e., you have a CD in the CD/DVD drive and that drive is listed as the default boot device in your system's BIOS). More often (on newer systems), a failed hard drive will also produce this message.
If you have bootable media (the Windows install CD is one example), you should try to boot to it and see if you can read your hard drive.
First, new hard drive must show up in BIOS. Verify. Then try setting CD\DVD (optical drive) as 1st boot option. You should get "Press any key..." on the screen to set up Windows. There is a bigger problem if you can't get to this point.
Open cpu cabinet and Refix RAM some times bootable files not load on ram properly so this error comes. So refix RAM memory clean dust from circuit and RAM . Also pull cmos cell from motherbord for 5 minutes so all settings are defaults then check.
Try pressing F12 while booting or DEL etc. as some PC's have a seperate boot priority menu from the BIOS. Once you can boot from the install cd you can use it to fix your master boot record by entering the recovery console and using the command fixmbr. Hope this helps :)
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