Grantcos

When I switch my lap top on I am geting this message....




Its a fujitsu siemens, windows vista basic.

Could anybody point me in the right direction how to reboot it or what ever it needs, I've looked on you tube but no joy

Dingy

Boot order....or the hdd is not seen by the bios....as its trying to boot from LAN

Could be fixable or could be a present for the wheelie bin....

GO into bios and check boot order - esc f12 or f10 depening on what ....

set boot order f10 to save and exit...

if that fails hammer....lol

Ash170990

normally when this happens its a dead hard drive, replace this, reinstall vista and away you go

cozmeister

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Before looking at those two options, check the obvious things first - ie, check the hard disk is actually connected (once in a blue moon, they can sometimes work themselves loose depending on the design of the machine) - if it's easy to get to, remove and reseat it to make sure. Listen carefully when you turn the machine on - does it make any clicking or whirring sounds (not the fans, and remove any CD from the CD drive)?

Is it an Amilo Pro or a Lifebook?

If it still refuses to play ball, then consider a new hard disk - about £40. No point binning a perfectly serviceable laptop.

PS...you have a backup of your data don't you?

Grantcos

Is this the hard drive? if so it was pluged in...


There is no clicking or anything just the fan.

I dont have any disks Its an Amilio

I'm not sure what bios is, the only thing I can do when its starting is press f2 or f12

Pressing f12 I get this


And get this with f2

Dingy

Boot from the sata device...

Ash170990

Yes that is the hard drive in the first picture...... When pressing F12 that brings up the Boot menu, so basically you can boot from another deivice i.e. Cd rom, USB drive etc.

F2 is the BIOS, but i dont really see why you need that.

The way i see it is your PC can see the hard drive (this is shown i nthe F12 boot menu as Sata HDD WD blah blah blah) So its the windows installation which is ballsed.....you can try a repair install (search google for this) or a complete re-install however doing a complete re-install will delete all of your data, and a repair wont.

However, the reason the windows installation is ballsed could be due to a faulty hard drive...... so it may be a case of you reinstall it get it back up and running and then 2 weeks down the line it happens again........

So up to you fella, personally id stick a new hard drive in and be done with it

Scrap this post, ive just seen your PC is set to boot from the network card which is why it couldnt find your Operating system...... If you restart the laptop you will probably get the same message in which case you will need to go back into the BIOS (F2 on boot) and change the settign in there, there is normally a tab cqalled boot so you can easy change this using the arrows on the keyboard.

Grantcos

In the words of ace ventura...

ITS ALIVE, ITS ALIVE


Thank you guys your bloody stars, I havent seen this thing working for months, yipee!

Theres nothing of importance on it, what would I need to look out for in a new hard drive?

Thanks

Ash170990

Just make sure you get a 2.5" sata drive....... Id reccomend a Western digital...... and then obviously just choose hwat size you want i.e. 250GB etc.

Ash170990

just edited my previous post...... realised id made a mistake.... your hard drive should be fine mate

Grantcos

What will I need to change it to?

Ash170990

the SATA HDD...... once youve dowe that i think its normally F10 to save changes and exit.... then all should be fine

BM08

So just to recap, in steps, what exactly did you do to fix this?

I friend of my misses came to me a few weeks ago with exactly the same problem with his Dell laptop, my first thought was a corrupt file in the OS

Grantcos

Thanks ash your a star

I pressed f12 when it started up, went down to sata and pressed enter.