My computer starts but no hardrives found what is it >

could be some solutions for this.

• hardrive is damaged and is not working. (no cheap solution)
• hardrive lost format, and it need to be formatted again.
• windows plug and play can't assign a drive letter.

this last option you can make it entering:
start > right click on my computer > Storage

then identify your hard drive (plug it and unplug it, Plug and play will show it,) then assign a different drive letter, and that's it. if it is not working try to format it from there, but be aware that if you format it, you are going to lost everything.
the only thing you can recover ir the hardrive as hardware. not the information.

hope the information helps.

god luck,

Hello. :)
Your pen is probably formatted with the FAT32 filesystem, there is a limit to how big of a file you can copy to it. If the file is over 3.5gb you cant copy it to the pen. What you need to is backup your 300 pictures, copy them to your computers hardrive and then format the USB pen. Follow these steps:
Plug in the usb pen-> Head to "My Computer"->Locate the usb pen->Right click it and hit "Format"->Choose "NTFS" in the "File system" tab->Quick format->Hit start->Done.
Hopes this helps. :)

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1. Go to Tools->Internet Options->Security
2. Select the Security tab
3. Click on the Internet zone icon at the top of the tab page
4. Click the Custom Level button
5. In the Miscellaneous section change Display mixed content to Enable
6. Repeat steps 1 - 5 for the Local intranet and Trusted sites zones

Check the cable and power supply to the external drive. Has it been format for your OS? What type of interface, i.e. USB, Firewire, SATA, etc.
Goto Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager.
See if the interface for the external drive is shown and working.
Open "Computer Management Console" and select "Storage". Do you see the external drive?

try it on another computer if that dosent work you should
reformat your computer but first backup all your data by putting your another internal hardrive on your computer and move all your files you need to the empty hardrive and after that take the hardrive with all your stuff in it off the computer and then reformat the hardrive which the external hardrive does not work on and install a new operating system then put the other hardrive with all your stuff back on your computer and transfer your stuff into the hardrive with a operating system then try the external hardrive

OR
you can burn all your stuff into a CD or a DVD
OR
you can put all your stuff into FlashDrives and then after you reformat the hardrive with an operating system put your stuff back into the computer and after that the external hardrive should work

Just do the following steps and your issue will be resolved.

1) Delete all unwanted data from Drive C.

2)Delete all data that you have copied from Drive C to External HDD

3) Open My computer and go to Tools---> Folder Options---->Click on Viwe Tab----> Check 'Show hidden files and folders' and select OK.

4) Go to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp and Delete everything that you ee inside Temp Folder

5)Go to C:\WINDOWS\ here you will find folders like $hf_mig$, here you eill have to Delete all the folders starting and ending with $ sign.

6) Empty Recycle bin and restart the PC and your issue will be resolved.

If you feel that my answer has helped you in any way then please give a vote.
Thanks.

> try to check the connection,also try to connect it to a working computer

Normaly when you get the error that the operating system cant be found, it is a indication that the hardrive has either gone bad, or somehow some of the system files got deleted. I would say though since the hard drive light wont come on it could be the hardrive has shut down completely. But you still should see the company image of your computer when you start it up, (the bios screen)

A bad hardrive would be my first guess, 2nd problem if its not your harddrive would be a new power supply.

You need to format the external drive. Format the drive as primary drive ans in FAT32.
Insert the external hard drive into the USB port then Click on Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management.
Then right click on Disk 1 removable drive and click Format. After the flash drive has been formatted it will indicate that its Healthy.

Try to replace the CD drive