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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Make sure you don't have a CD in the drive, a floppy in the drive, or a usb memory stick connected to the PC. It could be trying to boot from one of those 3 devices. If all 3 are clear and empty, then yep. Your physical hard drive is dead. |
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"Make sure you don't have a CD in the drive, a floppy in the drive, or a usb memory stick connected to the PC. It could be trying to boot from one of those 3 devices. If all 3 are clear and empty, then yep. Your physical hard drive is dead."
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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
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"Make sure you don't have a CD in the drive, a floppy in the drive, or a usb memory stick connected to the PC. It could be trying to boot from one of those 3 devices. If all 3 are clear and empty, then yep. Your physical hard drive is dead."
Or MBR (Master Boot Record) is corrupted? But if that is the case it is very complex and needs somebody to take you through it.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Don't despair. turn it on keep pressing f12. Should get a boot screen.
There will be a system restore or factory settings. Will take an hour or so to reboot and then will open no probs.
Will be like when bought tho. You will lose all files music photos etc and have to download all programs again like anti virus etc. Will take a day of updates to get it back but worked for me many a time
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Step 1 - hammer
Step 2 - Bin
 
Youve been to the same IT school as me... "
I was being humorous, as always 
However hard drives are fixable, but Evie you will need someone to look at it, depends on the age of the device and whether it was of value to start with in relation to cost of repairs.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Don't despair. turn it on keep pressing f12. Should get a boot screen.
There will be a system restore or factory settings. Will take an hour or so to reboot and then will open no probs.
Will be like when bought tho. You will lose all files music photos etc and have to download all programs again like anti virus etc. Will take a day of updates to get it back but worked for me many a time
Hope this helps"
This  had to do this to ours and worked perfect afterwards |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"And this is why I LOVE Fab!!
Turns out my hard drive had fallen out a bit  put it back in and it's working now
Thank you to Mr June_Terry For fixing it "
You are very welcome, see all lifes problems can be fixed with a bit of finger wiggling and proper insertion |
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Now when I boot it up it just says 'operating system not found'
Is there anyway to get it back??? 
