On Mon 09 Jun 2014 12:56:02 PM CDT, dragonbite wrote:
lwfinger;2647962 Wrote:
> On 06/07/2014 02:36 PM, Fraser Bell wrote:
> On HP and Compaq laptops, if the BIOS detects that there is a disk
> connected to
> the system, but that disk does not respond to probing, then the BIOS
> hangs
> forever with the disk active light lit. Nothing that I have found can
> abort the
> operation other than removing the disk.
That’s what it seems to be doing, which is why I couldn’t get into the
BIOS until it was unplugged. So now I have it unplugged and am using
USB Live drives until I can get a new hard drive.
Hi
Did you try re-plugging the device and see if the error is repeatable?
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Yes, I wanted to check and make sure the hard drive wasn’t just unseated enough to throw an error.
On 06/09/2014 09:06 AM, dragonbite wrote:
>
> malcolmlewis;2648152 Wrote:
>> Hi
>> Did you try re-plugging the device and see if the error is repeatable?
>>
>
> Yes, I wanted to check and make sure the hard drive wasn’t just unseated
> enough to throw an error.
Of course, Murphy’s Law will guarantee that the problem is in the disk
interface, not the drive, and that the new one will not work either. Good luck. 
On Mon 09 Jun 2014 03:26:14 PM CDT, Larry Finger wrote:
On 06/09/2014 09:06 AM, dragonbite wrote:
>
> malcolmlewis;2648152 Wrote:
>> Hi
>> Did you try re-plugging the device and see if the error is
>> repeatable?
>>
>
> Yes, I wanted to check and make sure the hard drive wasn’t just
> unseated enough to throw an error.
Of course, Murphy’s Law will guarantee that the problem is in the disk
interface, not the drive, and that the new one will not work either.
Good luck. 
Hi
Hopefully not 
The drive in the system was suspect from the get go,
guess the shipping probably killed it…
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