My computer does not start a player - A does not exist and does not recognize my hard drive.

My computer does not start. I tried to solve a problem with the disappearance of CD and DVD ROM drives, I unplugged then replugged cables connecting readers to the motherboard and when I rebooted, it told me to insert a bootable media in the floppy drive. I don't have a floppy drive. Before I tried to repair CDs and DVDs, my directory showed an A/floppy disk, because it seemed weird, yet benign, I don't think many, until my BIOS could not find my hard drive. It offers my USB drives and there is no such thing as a floppy drive to boot from. Help?

If the drive is not detected in the bios, and I guess you actually mean the bios screen, then the drive has failed or the motherboard connections has a problem.

Once in the bios screen try to reset for fail safe defaults, reboot, see if that makes a difference for the drive detected in bios

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