Hard drive not detected in BIOS

[Mr Premium Package]

I cannot boot my PC-
I got a blue screen about a week ago and upon trying to reboot I got error 1962 no OS found. At first I thought it could be a faulty sata cable but it did not fix it. I then assumed it was faulty ports on the motherboard so I bought a new motherboard cpu and ram (I wanted to upgrade these anyway at some point). However upon booting only the disk drive is detected. I tried swapping out the power and data cables with the disk drive but had no luck. I can hear the hard drive spin up if I unplug the power cable and plug it in when the pc is on.

 

[clutchc]

Sounds like it is trying to tell you that the HDD has died.

 

[Promomilia]

The very first thing to check are the jumpers if you have an IDE drive. An IDE cable can support two devices, one as a Primary and one as a Secondary. These are sometimes referred to as Master and Slave. The jumper pins on the back of the drive should be set to Master for the Primary and Slave for the Secondary. There is also a jumper for Cable Select which recognizes the drives based on their location on the cable. For simplicity, stick with the Master and Slave setup. If you have a SATA drive, you do not need to worry about jumpers.

If the jumpers are correct, but the new drive is still not showing up, go into the BIOS setup and make sure the drive detection is set to AUTO. If this doesn’t work, you can try going to the manufacturer’s website and get the breakdown of Sectors, Cylinders, etc and manually input the figures. But if it doesn’t auto-detect the drive, it probably will not detect it manually, either.

The next step in this case is to flash the BIOS. Check the motherboard or computer manufacturer for a newer version. Firmware updates will often correct this type of issue as well as improve the current functionality of your hardware.

 

[Mr Premium Package]

The very first thing to check are the jumpers if you have an IDE drive. An IDE cable can support two devices, one as a Primary and one as a Secondary. These are sometimes referred to as Master and Slave. The jumper pins on the back of the drive should be set to Master for the Primary and Slave for the Secondary. There is also a jumper for Cable Select which recognizes the drives based on their location on the cable. For simplicity, stick with the Master and Slave setup. If you have a SATA drive, you do not need to worry about jumpers.

If the jumpers are correct, but the new drive is still not showing up, go into the BIOS setup and make sure the drive detection is set to AUTO. If this doesn’t work, you can try going to the manufacturer’s website and get the breakdown of Sectors, Cylinders, etc and manually input the figures. But if it doesn’t auto-detect the drive, it probably will not detect it manually, either

The next step in this case is to flash the BIOS. Check the motherboard or computer manufacturer for a newer version. Firmware updates will often correct this type of issue as well as improve the current functionality of your hardware.

I tried updating the bios but it still won't detect it... Although I hate to accept it, I think the hard drive is dead

 

[clutchc]

Any way you can try the drive in another machine? Try another drive in that machine?

 

[Mr Premium Package]

Any way you can try the drive in another machine? Try another drive in that machine?

Unfortunately i do not have another PC or HDD to test with. I think it may be dead though as the ODD is detected and the HDD is not,

EDIT:
Used a laptop hdd and it shows up in BIOS

 

[clutchc]

Used a laptop hdd and it shows up in BIOS

Yep, that kind cinches it. The HDD sounds like it gave up the ghost.

 

[Mr Premium Package]

Thanks for trying to help guys, I'm probably going to order a new HDD and an SSD later today.
Can't
Wait
(Had loads of steam games and have slow internet)

 

[clutchc]

...(Had loads of steam games and have slow internet)

And never bothered to make a backup or Win disk image, I'll bet 😉

 

[Mr Premium Package]

You got that right