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by bankyret

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this is the problem am having right now and is giving a serious headache am trying to boot to window now am having an error message 'No boot able hard drive so am trying to format the hard drive then am having error reading fixed disk what am going to do now pls?

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by thumbsup2

Can the BIOS see the HDD? If so, what does it report?

Also, what type of HDD is it? If SATA, do you have the proper drivers to use?

What are you using to boot the system up with so you're not running off of the HDD?

by brian

Sounds to me like you may have a bad hard drive in that computer. check in bios to make sure that s.m.a.r.t. is enabled and what it is reporting, also, if it is a Dell (nothing against dell), most likely the drive is toast. you may want to consider trying a different contorller cable (sata or ide) as this may cause bios not to see the hard drive as well.

by seanferd

Check the connections for the drive, especially if you've recently connected it.

Run the manufacturers testing utility - you'll need to use one that boots itself in this case, if it isn't the connection. For instance, the Seagate/Maxtor utilities:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools/

Or you can use what is available on the Ultimate Boot CD:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

Does the drive show in BIOS setup?

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