Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Supa907
I guess its a good time to update to a 1T HDD  :l . Another question, if i wanted to test if it was all the HDD's fault, a friend of mine has a PC with basically the same spec's as me, could i take his HDD and test it in my pc? I just dont wanna lay $100+ down to just find out it wasnt the problem. Thanks for all the input so far 

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There is a very small chance it could work but I highly doubt it. I assume you are talking about taking his HDD, putting it in your computer and then booting into Windows.

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Originally posted by Supa907
Instead i was greeted by a "No hard drive inserted please insert one" message of the sort. i went into my Bios and it didn't show a hard drive installed even though it was spinning. I restarted again and went into Bios to now find that it had detected my Hard Drive, so i exited Bios and tried to set it up hoping it would fix my problem, but then again it said it couldn't find the hard drive. I tried going in again and connecting different SATA cables to the drive, but the same message every time, my mobo is detecting the drive on and off just like it has been doing with my old HDD, I'm thinking the Mother Board is busted.

Input?

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Your motherboard is perfectly fine. This is what should be happening. You will need to go into the bios and set your CD Drive as your primary boot drive. Now you need to insert your Windows CD into the drive and when you see a screen that says something along the lines of "Press any key to continue.. / boot from CD" (Can't remember) press a key and this will start you off in reinstalling Windows.

Something has obviously corrupted the data on your old HDD which is causing these problems.