[abbiecosnett]

Okay, so I need to reboot my laptop as I've got loads of junk on here and I just want to start all over again.
I have the reboot cd.... as my laptop turns on I press f12 which takes me to the rebooting page. I click reboot with CD... then it starts.
It gets about 1/9 of the way through then tells me my hard drive can't be found.
What does this mean?! My hard drive is there, as I'm on my laptop now!!

[BearPup]

What it sounds like is that the hard drive is not being found in the BIOS settings. Try entering the BIOS and make sure that a) your hard drive is properly listed (type, size, etc.); and check the boot order, e.g., what device is listed to boot first. If its the CD, try changing it to the hard drive and see if that gets it to recognize your hard drive in the boot sequence.

From what your describing, you're trying to boot from a system disk with a one time boot from CD (the F12 key); you probably can enter the BIOS using the F2 key, but see what's listed on your initial startup screen. PLEASE, make sure you know what you're doing if you try and change the BIOS settings; telling it that the computer has an IDE hard drive when its a SATA drive is guaranteed to cause your system not to boot.

Hope that helps you out.

[BearPup]

What it sounds like is that the hard drive is not being found in the BIOS settings. Try entering the BIOS and make sure that 1) your hard drive is properly listed (type, size, etc.); and 2) check the boot order, e.g., what device is listed to boot first. If its the CD, try changing it to the hard drive and see if that gets it to recognize your hard drive in the boot sequence.

From what your describing, you're trying to boot from a system disk with a one time boot from CD (the F12 key); you probably can enter the BIOS using the F2 key, but see what's listed on your initial startup screen. PLEASE, make sure you know what you're doing if you try and change the BIOS settings; telling it that the computer has an IDE hard drive when its a SATA drive is guaranteed to cause your system not to boot.

Hope that helps you out.

This post has been edited by BearPup: 24 February 2013 - 06:23 PM

[orlbuckeye]

abbiecosnett, on 21 February 2013 - 09:57 AM, said:

Okay, so I need to reboot my laptop as I've got loads of junk on here and I just want to start all over again.
I have the reboot cd.... as my laptop turns on I press f12 which takes me to the rebooting page. I click reboot with CD... then it starts.
It gets about 1/9 of the way through then tells me my hard drive can't be found.
What does this mean?! My hard drive is there, as I'm on my laptop now!!

What you mean is you need help doing a system restore. It might also be that once you boot with the cd you need to remove the CD so it searches the HD instead of the the CD. In bios you must have boot from CD first for it to even boot using the CD. If the system booted fine before then the bios setting doesn't change by itself.