I deleted my hard drive from bios, can I get it back?

Joelmccall

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Aug 31, 2016
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I think I deleted my hard drive by accident and it is the drive which my pc normally boots from. I believe I done this when in bios settings after trying to fix the "reboot or select proper boot device" error on my PC. I deleted my hard drive by accident, now when I turn on my pc the hard drive spins up but the computer doesn't recognise it. I have used a Windows disc and went to repair my computer but still the hard drive isn't there, I have tried changing SATA ports etc but still no fix, can someone help please
 
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That's not going to delete it. Check also if SATA controller is enabled in the BIOS. Also in which mode it is, IDE (Legacy), AHCI or RAID.
You can't really "delete" a drive from BIOS. It's probably dead and BIOS doesn't recognize it any more.
"reboot or select proper boot device" happens when drive is dead or cables are not connected right or one of them is dead.
Try that drive in another computer.
 


I don't have another computer to try it in unfortunately, I remember in bios there was 2 bootable devices, but they were the wrong way (pic was trying to boot from dvd drive) but I remember spamming my keyboard in frustration and I must of clicked the delete key because the hard drive wasn't there after that.
 
Huh ?, What a funny way to name a computer, by it's graphic card.
Anyway, this is it's motherboard (MB): http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4668#ov
Here you can find manual for it: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4668#manual
Boot Option Priorities, Hard Drive/CD/DVD ROM Drive/Floppy Drive/Network Device BBS Priorities, on page 24
Storage Boot Option Control, page 26.

SATA Mode Selection
Allows you to decide whether to configure the SATA controller integrated in the Chipset to AHCI mode.
?IDE Configures the SATA controller to IDE mode.
?AHCI Configures the SATA controllers to AHCI mode. Advanced Host Controller Interface
(AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to enable advanced
Serial ATA features such as Native Command Queuing and hot plug. (Default), page 29.