Dropped pc and it won’t boot.

[froggyboy2011]

My pc fell when I pulled it over with headphones wire right onto its side. It started freezing up but was functional. The next time I started it up, bios would detect my hard drives and show them but it would say no boot media detected, is my hdd broken?

 

[jay32267]

I would open it up and re-seat everything....connectors....cards....whatever you see. Good chance something got knocked loose.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello froggyboy2011. What is the brand of your HDD?

 

[froggyboy2011]

It’s best western. I checked both hdd to another pc and disk manager shows the one that should boot ( the original ) but won’t show my new one.

 

[froggyboy2011]

would open it up and re-seat everything....connectors....cards....whatever you see. Good chance something got knocked loose.

Thanks for the reply but I tried this one.

 

[boosted1g]

hard drives are one of the most fragile parts of the PC and so you likely damaged the drive.

If you have another PC, download a linux live bootable cd (you can install to usb drive instead of CD).
If you can boot from the live linux image and work in it fine, then it is the hard drive that is bad.

 

[froggyboy2011]

hard drives are one of the most fragile parts of the PC and so you likely damaged the drive.

If you have another PC, download a linux live bootable cd (you can install to usb drive instead of CD).
If you can boot from the live linux image and work in it fine, then it is the hard drive that is bad.

Thanks for the reply, I took the hdd from another pc and put that in there and it’s working now. Thanks though.