Hardware Failure Resulting In The Hard Disk Can’t Boot
Posted in Hard Drive Failure by manyu time 7 Nov
Hard drive failure caused by the connection, power supply or the hard disk itself failure. When the hard disk can not boot, Windows prompt “Non-System disk or disk error, replace disk and press a key to reboot” (non-system disk or disk error) when starting, you can not boot the system, first of all we have to look for the causes of the hardware failure from the hardware.
In the majority of the hard disk boot failure fault, the drive itself, the connection or set error is the most common cause of the malfunction. Thus, after a fault in the guide, you can start your computer, press the Del key to enter the BIOS settings, in the main interface to move the cursor to the “Standard CMOS Features” (the standard CMOS settings) option, and enter into the sub-settings interface . In the interface to observe the IDE port to see whether the current system installed in the hard disk.
If you can see the hard disk model, and the model does not appear garbled, you can select the hard disk and enter into the hard disk interface, property settings, the “IDE Primary Master” (first IDE interface), and “Access Mode” (Access Mode ) options are set to “Auto” (automatic). Move the cursor to the “IDE HDD Auto-Detection” (auto-detect IDE hard disk) option and press the Enter key, so that the motherboard automatically detect the hard disk, if the hard disk at this time can show the corresponding information, such as, Capacity (the capacity), Cylinder (stigma number) and so on, the hard disk’s physical connection and BIOS settings are correct.
If the “Standard CMOS Features” do not see the hard disk letter and related information, or the hard disk into a garbled character models, for example, should have been “IC35L060AVVAWA07-O”, but has now become “IC # 5L0 & 0AVFA 7 -0 “, and then view the hard drive parameters, but also have nothing, then in general there are two reasons:
- The hard drive data cable or power line problems
When the BIOS can not see the hard disk, or hard disk models garbled, first consider the use of substitution to confirm there is no problem to replace a data line and double-check the data line and the hard drive interface, IDE interface board exposure, view the motherboard IDE interface and hard disk data interface whether there is a Broken Needle, crooked needle and so on. If the problem is indeed a result of the data lines and power connections caused by the general replacement of data lines and eliminate, in the BIOS you can see the hard disk,and it also can be guided at this time.
2. Hard disk itself is the problem
When passing through the replacement of data lines, ruled out being exposed still can not see the hard disk, or hard disk model is garbled, you can only replace the law to check if the hard disk itself broke down, and specific method is:attach the failed hard disk to the other normal computer to see if the hard disk is work, if working, the hard disk itself is no problem; if still not detect the hard disk, the hard disk have been a serious failure, proposed to go back to the manufacturer for maintenance
Note: If your system has installed multiple hard drives, you also need to check the hard drive jumper settings so as to avoid errors because the jumper settings cause the system can not detect the presence of the hard disk. Hard drive jumper setting method can be obtained by looking at the instructions.
Hard drive can not boot often caused by hardware failures, most of  its failure appears to data connect cable or in the IDE interface , the possibility of the hard disk itself failure is not much, it is generally available through re-plug hard drive data cable or change IDE port, etc. to find failures quickly. In addition, BIOS type of right or wrong in the hard disk drive directly affect the normal use. The machines are now supported “IDE Auto Detect” (automatic detection) function,so can automatically detect the type of hard drive, for ordinary users, recommended the adoption of this feature to automatically set the drive parameters.
