No bootable devices messege

Does no bootable devices message mean my hard drive is gone out. I put my ear to laptop and can hear noise from drive. In my bios there is no primary (hard) drive even though i have hard drive on top of my boot order. remove drive and plugged back incase it maybe got bumped and lost connection but got same message.

 

I think your disk may be gone, but if it clicks all the time, but nothing happens in terms of access, you can try one trick. It seems that sometimes the head gets stuck because of the shock, vibration or heat. If this is the case, then try the following:
Take it out
Take it on the side and drop it from 1 cm on the table.

I had one disk that was already on its way to the waste, and have fixed it that way. No bad sectors, no nothing. Works like before (it is already 6 months now). I heard this from friend of mine who fixed two of his disks that way. I didn't believe it, and he showed me in front of my eyes. Now I am convinced.

Otherwise it can be something with the controller onboard. Try with some external case, or some other disk to isolate the problem.

Hope it helps,

Ivan

 

Ha! We called this "stiction" (stick + friction). Years ago when i started fixing pc's my manager told me about it, and then showed me how to fix it; he grabs a screw driver and lightly smacks the drive, much to my surprise.

 

I would try it in an external enclosure before I do the smack/drop trick. Just to make sure there is no possibility that the fault is from the notebook itself.

 

Stick + friction? Good to know. Do you know what causes this?

 

To the best of my knowledge. the head/arm inside the drive gets stuck in one spot. Not stuck to the platter, cuz that would wreck the drive, but like the arm part locks in place so that the head isn't moving around reading data.

 

Interesting info - thanks!

Cheers,

Ivan