Pc not seeing harddrive

Please, describe the problem with more details. What part ot the PC and what part of the monitor blinks and how long does it takes to boot? Do you see somethnig on the monitor before booting completes? Slow boot and blinkig are very common problems, related both hardware and software. Inspect the motherboard for inflated capacitors. Replace capacistors or the motherboard if unable to complete sucessfully capacitor replasement. Inspect and replace capacitors on monitors' power supply.Check the same in PCs' power supply. Check the harddrive for bad sectors using Hiren Boot CD and the tool called "MHDD" in it's DOS menu. Transfer the information to a new harddrive and replace it with the new one.Check for viruses and unwanted software. Check for installed 'Microsoft Office File Validation Add-On" and remove it. Check if there are more than one antivirus program. Leave only one and remove the rest.

HI there,
The "Error" texts saying:
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
Are completely normal. This simply states that there is no external cables plugged into the specialty inputs on your toshiba laptop.

The "operating system not found" is stating that your existing hard drive is either A) dead or B) been erased.

Try to re-install your operating system, if it finds no hard drive, you'll need a new one!

Go in to bios by pressing del key sometimes F2 or F1 and see if your harddrive is set to 2nd highest boot priority.Set your CD/DVD drive to first. Save your settings and exit. Remove any cd's/dvd's you may have in your drive plus if you have a flash drive plugged into the usb port unplug it before starting.

If you still have this problem, your harddrive might have a problem with the booting files on it. Reinstalling or repairing windows will fix this. Put your windows disc in and boot to it.

Hopefully you wont have a problem installing or repairing windows or your harddrive could be bad. Before buying a new harddrive for it try removing it from the bay and reinstalling it, in case of a bad connection (example:harddrive wasn't fully connected.).You could go into bios and see if it shows up there.

Hope this helps ya.

Verify BIOS settings and see if the harddrive is listed. If it's not then the harddrive maybe bad. Or, insert the set-up disk in the CD driver to see if it will boot that.

Unmountable boot volume means your harddrive has gone out.You will have to get a new one and load your os again.Sorry:-(

Your BIOS is looking for a drive to "boot" from and does not see your harddrive or CD-rom.

You may have a harddrive failure or bad drive controller.

One way to see is to load your operating system disc in your CD-rom and see if the computer sees the drive and boots up. If it boots, try to locate your "C" drive. If you can't locate the harddrive, it's a good bet it's damaged.

If the CD-rom doesn't boot, it is most likely a bad drive controller or cable.

ok ...the issue is only that it might recognize the operating (win98) system if its installed on it ..if it was just a slave there will be no problems..just attach it ..on the bus and power ...and boot the system ...if you want you may use a partition magic program to format and rename it ...but you can do that with the xp ...by clicking right on the drive in my computer and format from there ... if it doesn't want to format it ..just boot from the installation cd ( xp) and continue like a normal installation until you are at the point where you have to choose the partition to install the program ...choose the new added hard disk and format it ...by deleting and reformat ....but after this just stop the installation and restart the old OS ...but I'm sure that you will be able to format it quick from xp directly ...so , just attach it and boot...click my computer to see if it sees it ..and format

The hard drive is most likely failing. It is being detected but is not functioning (when a boot device isn't seen or fails to boot, the system trys to boot to network and that causes the PXE error.

Most likely, since the drive detects, but doesn't work, replace the HDD

Buy a new harddrive and install a new OS on it
make sure your old harddrive is disconnected
after the new hard drive is working properly then reconnect your old harddrive and
u will have all your files back unless the old hard drives crashed completely

It seems like your harddrive has given up the ghost or thrown out the operating system.Power up the machine and enter the bios (Press either Del,F1,F2 to enter) once in bios check the system can see the harddrive,9 If bios can,t recognise the harddrive then it,s dead, If it can then the next step is boot options and make sure it it booting from the harddisk.
If It is then see if there is a recovery progrom in the bios that will enable a system restore,If not then change the boot option to start with a Cdrom and put in the recovery disk that was supplied with the Pc.

When going through the process with the cd you will soon find out if the harddrive is corrupt or Dead.

When using the cd if the system