Tath
New Member
ok i come home and my computer won't boot. everytime it tries it goes to the title screen "gateway fx" then goes to a black screen and says:
intel boot something something establishing link, then says unable, and insert boot disk
i went to the bios menu, tabbed over to the boot menu and under Hard drives it says there is none, i'm assuming my drive is dead.
so far I've tried different plugs for the power cord, different connections for the sata cable, a different sata cable, all to no avail.
Best buy will charge me $79 to diagnose it, but then if it turns out the drive is bad i lost basically the cost of a new drive.
it is under warranty, but i dont' want to ship it off for 30 days, they have an option of spending $19 and they send you a replacement then you ship yours in, but think that's safe? i had finance info on the drive.
anyway what do you think? do the replacement? if the drive is dead could someone pull off my info? I'm limited on funds or i'd just buy a new drive.
any help is appreciated.
intel boot something something establishing link, then says unable, and insert boot disk
i went to the bios menu, tabbed over to the boot menu and under Hard drives it says there is none, i'm assuming my drive is dead.
so far I've tried different plugs for the power cord, different connections for the sata cable, a different sata cable, all to no avail.
Best buy will charge me $79 to diagnose it, but then if it turns out the drive is bad i lost basically the cost of a new drive.
it is under warranty, but i dont' want to ship it off for 30 days, they have an option of spending $19 and they send you a replacement then you ship yours in, but think that's safe? i had finance info on the drive.
anyway what do you think? do the replacement? if the drive is dead could someone pull off my info? I'm limited on funds or i'd just buy a new drive.
any help is appreciated.