Re: Windose 10

From	felix <me@nothere.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Windose 10
Date	2016-12-25 00:06 +1100
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On Saturday, 24 Dec 2016 10:09 PM, Grumpy Tech wrote:
> On 24/12/2016 7:59 PM, felix wrote:
>> On Friday, 23 Dec 2016 10:28 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>> felix <me@nothere.invalid> wrote:
>>>> I've now determined that the problem is that the none of the SATA 
>>>> ports
>>>> are working. the hard drive is not being seen and not showing up in 
>>>> the
>>>> bios. so I assume that can only mean the SATA ports are cactus, as the
>>>> drive has power.
>>> Ok it has power, but have you tried it in another PC to see whether the
>>> control electronics have thrown in the towl?
>>>
>>> Any chance that the BIOS settings have got scrambled due to some
>>> glitch or a failing backup battery and the SATA controller's simply
>>> disabled?
>>>
>>
>> it's showing up in the 'boot' section of the bios, and at startup on the
>> blank black screen, but it's not showing as detected on the sata port in
>> bios
>>
> That's probably because your Bios is in AHCI mode

it is

> which won't show drives there. Change the Bios to legacy mode and see 
> if you can get it to boot 

still won't boot and still doesn't show on the sata port

> (Needs to be under 2tb).

1Tb

> It's not a faulty MB. It sounds like the standard windows boot sector 
> issue, which could indicate a drive that has a failed boot sector or 
> the bcd file has been corrupted. Put it in your other machine on 
> another sata port and run from an admin dos prompt chkdsk x: /r where 
> x: is the drive letter given to the drive by your machine. It may 
> resolve the issue.
>
> You could also try this
>
> Open Command Prompt from Advanced Startup Options or System Recovery 
> Options menu. Note: The Command Prompt available from these diagnostic 
> menus is very similar to the one you may be familiar with within 
> Windows. ...
> At the prompt, type the bootrec command as shown below and then press 
> Enter: bootrec /rebuildbcd.
>
>

Ok, thanks I'll try those after Xmas. see, you are good for something 
after all.. :)


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