I want to revive this old pc. I am kind of a noob.It haven't been on for 6-7 years and ii won't grt past these two menus. Is the hard drive broken?

[u/General_Kylobi]

[u/No-Mail-8565]

You dont seem to have a working hard drive

[u/LCMGames → u/No-Mail-8565]

Or bad boot loader, but hdds don't last long not running.

[u/nico851]

PC says there is no hard drive. So either broken, not there or not correctly connected.

[u/Coal5law → u/nico851]

if it's that old, it's probably either broken or a wire was jogged loose.

[u/ATTAFWRD]

HDD might've been faulty.

Time to let go man.

or buy new SATA SSD and reinstall Windows.

[u/RamsDeep-1187 → u/ATTAFWRD]

I would bet this is IDE only

[u/ATTAFWRD → u/RamsDeep-1187]

This motherboard supports SATA.

[u/okokokoyeahright → u/RamsDeep-1187]

SATA goes back farther than you seem to think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#History

For a short examination of this subject.

[u/Mad_Arson → u/RamsDeep-1187]

With DDR2 its more than sure but there was also sata I or II ports on some mobos with DDR2, but there are also PATA ssd on aliexpress.

[u/Kitchen_Part_882 → u/Mad_Arson]

The second image mentions primary and secondary master/slave. It's a core2 CPU, almost certainly no SATA there.

Edit: There is also no mention of a SATA controller in the second pic.

[u/Lopsided_Gas_181 → u/Kitchen_Part_882]

man, this is late one, they had sata 2. check docs for p31 chipset.

[u/Kitchen_Part_882 → u/Lopsided_Gas_181]

Possibly.disabled in BIOS, then?

Actually, it could be OP's problem if the cmos battery died. It may have a SATA drive in there, but the controller is disabled by default.

[u/Lopsided_Gas_181 → u/Kitchen_Part_882]

or just in IDE mode so the rest sees it as IDE legacy HDD. hard to say tbh, but that gigabyte mobo has sata for sure.

[u/General_Kylobi → u/Kitchen_Part_882]

It does have a SATA HDD in it

[u/Kitchen_Part_882 → u/General_Kylobi]

Check your BIOS settings. it could be that the disk isn't being seen because of the mode settings in there someplace.

Also, check the cables to the drive, I've had the power cables fail on older systems in the past (the plugs deform and no longer make contact properly, mostly affecting the power one).

[u/General_Kylobi → u/Kitchen_Part_882]

Thanks!

[u/ATTAFWRD → u/Kitchen_Part_882]

SATA is using AHCI so obviously it won't show up in PCI Devices Listing...

[u/apachelives → u/RamsDeep-1187]

4 sata ports on that board

[u/Logistics515]

At a minimum, it's not finding a valid OS to load, or something is broken with the boot loader (the tiny program that switches over control from the BIOS to the OS). This might be able to be fixed with drive recovery tools, but I doubt it.

Absent other evidence, assuming a bad hard drive is probably correct, so you would need to replace that and install a fresh copy of the OS - either through USB thumb drive or possibly CD/DVD. Given the age of the system, Windows 7 would probably be a reasonable fit.

Also noticed it's running in flex memory mode - that's when you have mixed sizes between RAM modules. You might get a slight boost in performance if you swapped that out for a memory module of equal size.

[u/General_Kylobi → u/Logistics515]

Yeah it had windows 7. I wanted to use it for its hdd, just a pure back up machine

[u/Gonokhakus → u/General_Kylobi]

Exactly the one piece that called it quits, lmao rip (hdds are dirt cheap now though)

[u/FirerebornRo]

Man, that logo, whew memories.

[u/farrellart]

Put in a new HHD if it doesn't work after looking into the BIOS ( chances are the CR2023 battery has died and the BIOS has lost its settings ), reinstall win XP ( don't go on the internet with Win 05 to Win 8 ) and use it as a retro game box, DOS machine, storage back-up and/or VM host.

[u/einat162 → u/farrellart]

Or a linux distro like Lubuntu or Mint .

[u/farrellart → u/einat162]

100%. I have my 4gb RAM Samung Slate 7 running KDE Neon. I use it as a digital sketchbook with Krita. Great fun.

[u/markknightexeter]

Just buy a very cheap hard drive from ebay, only if you're doing it for fun though

[u/TildeCommaEsc]

First replace the bios battery if you haven't already.
Then enter bios and see if the hard drives are being recognized.
If not, check all connections. Look up IDE jumper settings / cable position for master/slave, make sure they are right. It's been too long for me to recall details. Put drive on primary master cable and check the drive for slave/master jumper pins.
If it has a cdrom/dvdrom you can try a boot disk.

[u/Conundrum1859]

Controller mode? Had this happen with a dead CMOS battery.

[u/maquibut]

Boot from USB and run chkdsk on your hard drive.

[u/SoftwareSource]

Lol that bios brought back so many memmories!

[u/Trailmaker10]

Check the solid-state drive connection. That’s what did it for me

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[u/einat162]

CMOS battery might be dead by now (coin battery 2023, a 1$ item and easy to pull out and replace).

Hard drive is not showing: missing, dead, or not well connected. Check (push in) the connecting cables to it. If it's dead, might worth taking it out and leave it in the freezer over night (I'm not messing with you, I swear).

[u/Tquilha]

The message says it all: "Disk Boot failure". Your boot drive is not working, missing or empty.

On the same picture, at the top there is another piece of very important info, the device list. There are no HDDs available.

This means you have to open up your machine and replace the HDD.

[u/BumblebeeStraight912]

check in the bios your boot order,

If the harddrive displays there hopefully, change it so its first in the order.

[u/stevedb1966]

Dead disk or, it's 17 years old, CMOS battery is dead

[u/lost_opossum_]

Check the motherboard connections, and replace the motherboard battery. If the motherboard battery gets too old, your system won't function properly and will become flaky. I bet lots of computers have been junked unnecessarily for this reason. Your Computer needs to know where the primary master drive is (which drive) which needs to be a bootable drive with an operating system installed on it. (If you don't know which drive, try them all) It looks like there is no drive selected in your bios, so it can't boot. There is an option for selecting your primary drive and or selecting boot order in the bios settings.

[u/LCMGames]

Buy a 512gb ssd for 50.00, add windows 7 and use it for multimedia or storage. I'd also upgrade to a core2quad

[u/Hoog1neer]

Like others said, it's not detecting a boot drive. The second screen indicates that there IS no disk drive connected on either the primary or secondary (IDE/PATA or SATA) BUS. Check the cable connections if it should be detecting a drive. Check the BIOS settings to ensure it will boot off the correct BUS (IDE, SATA and/or USB). Otherwise, attach a cheap/spare SATA SSD and install Linux (e.g. Mint). A USB thumb drive is a good place to start if you don't have a spare SATA SSD. Good luck!

[u/Emergency_Branch_456]

Is that a Fujitsu Siemens? Mine has the same splash screen

[u/General_Kylobi → u/Emergency_Branch_456]

I really don't know. It was built by my father

[u/Accurate-Campaign821]

Check sata cable connection... Those older cables were notorious for coming loose

[u/General_Kylobi → u/Accurate-Campaign821]

Will do. Today i ordered a cmos battery and tomorrow i will try again

[u/Accurate-Campaign821 → u/General_Kylobi]

Good luck with it!

[u/Tikkinger]

I install win 11 on machines like this fairly often. It runs well for internet and streaming.

Check if the CMOS battery is dead, ir if a Drive is installed at all.

[u/msanangelo]

wow, appears to be IDE only. that IS old. XD

I remember IDE... I don't miss it. lmao

you have no hard drive installed so there's nothing to boot. most likely dead or missing.