No HDD Has Been Identified In System
Jun 25, 2012
i got the error A disk error has occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart and i get an infinite loop. So i googled around and saw someone said use HDD diagnostic, i used Ultimate Boot CD followed his steps and it says: No Hard Disk Drive has been identified in your system. The following are the possible causes: - HDD POWER CABLE IS NOT PROPERLY ATTACHED TO THE HDD (After turning off the power to the system, please check the HDD power cable.) - HDD INTERFACE CABLE IS NOT PROPERLY ATTACHED TO THE HDD (After turning off the power to the system, please check the HDD interface cable.) - HDD MASTER-SLAVE SETTING IS INCORRECT (After turning off the power to the system, please confirm the appropriate jumper setting for the HDD. power down your PC system, check the above items, and then restart the program. If after checking the possible causes, the problem still persists, it is possible that the HDD itself is faulty.
Heres how it got to that.
1) Laptop crashed.
2) Went to do clean install of Windows 7 off USB (Its the right version with SP1 dont worry)
3) Got stuck at 13%
4) Stupid me turned it off
5) Get error "A disk read error has occured"
6) Got diagnostic report right up there^
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