Hard Drive Issues

[heater31]

a 3 month old HP Pavillion has decided to give me the sh1ts and give up the ghost

On start up a black screen appears with the following message: Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk, Press Enter.

Google search of that phrase suggests the hard drive is shot. HP Support centre agree with me when I rang to find a solution. They also got me to run a BIOS test to confirm however this test shows that everything is fine.

So all you computer whizzes out there is there another problem that I should get the Techie to look at when he arrives?

[Dissident]

Could be many issues...
But usually that's when the computer itself (ie, motherboard and CPU) can't see the HDD and therefore can't boot.

It might not be a shagged HDD but just a corrupt one (meaning the drive itself is ok, just can't read from it properly) which is fixed with a reformat.

If you had another HDD lying around, you could put it in, and try booting from it - unless that's a bit much for you.

[heater31]

well Diss it was a shot motherboard and the drive itself is ok.

That makes it 2 brand new computers for me in the past 6 years and 2 major problems with the machine inside 3 months

all fixed now and I am once again adjusting to the 22' monitor

[Dissident]

Good to see it's working!