{"id":9089,"date":"2021-11-30T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&p=9089"},"modified":"2021-11-30T22:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:58:54","slug":"the-computer-says-my-hard-drive-is-disabled","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/the-computer-says-my-hard-drive-is-disabled\/68290.html","title":{"rendered":"The Computer Says My Hard Drive Is Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dudes and Dudettes,<\/p>\n

I’m working on a Gateway W350I that I can’t find much information on, but that’s not the problem. The<\/p>\n

computer is not mine and the owner loaned it to a friend. It was suggested that it may have been dropped and<\/p>\n

now it will not boot. She said it worked prior to lending it out. Ok, so now it won’t do anthing realated to<\/p>\n

trying to boot up. It will turn on and I can enter the BIOS. A selection does display in the beginning that<\/p>\n

allows you to enter the BIOS (F2) or select the boot devices(F10). If select F10 and choose the hard drive as<\/p>\n

the boot device, the Phoenix TrustedCore Setup Utility appears and some information concerning CPU, memory,<\/p>\n

optical disk, and hard disk is displayed. It shows the optical drive as hard disk 0 and the real hard drive<\/p>\n

as hard disk 2, and it shows it being disabled. So, the BIOS knows there is a hard drive in it but the<\/p>\n

computer is not recognizing it when it is time to boot the OS. I first thought that the hard drive was dead<\/p>\n

so I bought another one and it does the same thing as the one that is in it now. I put my ear against the<\/p>\n

hard drive and I can hear it spinning up when I turn the computer on so I have to assume it is getting power.<\/p>\n

So I guess I need to know why the computer is saying that the hard drive is disabled? Is there a solution to<\/p>\n

this or is something damaged in the computer? Please Help!!!!!<\/p>\n

Thanks,
\nLarry L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":28},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-9089","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/9089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}