[jessicabl]

Hi! I am having a serious problem! i am on my moms computer right not but i really need mine back so i hope someone can help me! when i turn on my computer a screen comes up that says "insert BOOT diskette in A" if i hit delete and tab enough times i can bring up a blue screen that says AMIBIOS but that is all it will do!!! does anyone have any suggestions?

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how do i reboot from the bios?

[jessicabl]

how do i reboot from the bios?

[cmw2010]

When you get to the bios screen, does your computer recognize your hard drive? It will be under the setup tab.

[jessicabl]

if that is pri master or pri slave that states it is not installed. secondary master it states dvd, secodary slave not installed. is that what you mean? ive tried to reload windows and it states cannot find hard drive

[cmw2010]

Yes, your hard drive should be the Primary Master. If it does not recognize it then most likely your drive has gone bad. Had it been making any noise recently or given any indication it was going out, such as Blue Screen Errors or anything like that?

[jessicabl]

Yes, it had been making a clicking noise. Is there a way to copy it or at least get some of the stuff out of it?
Thanks so much.

[cmw2010]

You can take it out of your PC and hook it up as a slave drive in another PC and try to get the data off of it. Before you hook it up place it in the freezer for a while, sometimes getting it good and cold will help get it running long enough to recover some of your data.