Compaq V5305WM used to read hard drive

Hey, I got this computer for free and I would love to make it work, the problem is it will not read a hard drive to load an operating system, I can start it from a live cd of puppy linux, but it uses RAM for everything, is there anythin I can do to get it working? Ive taken out and cleaned everything also is there a way to update the Bios on this topic if you can boot from usb? Thanks for the help, Kayden. P.S. I'm not a computer Genius by far so if you could help me understand the question that would be great.

There is no need to update the BIOS to boot from USB. All you need to do is change the boot order in the BIOS. I found a good how-to on About.com article on how to change the boot order. Here is the link: change the order of Boot in the BIOS

Are you able to pull the hard disk to test it on another computer? Possible, the hard drive is defective and needs to be replaced.

I hope this helps!

Sean

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