Satellite S1800-100 HARD drive is not detected

Hello

I just got an old laptop, the guy who gave me think it had been deleted and the boot sector had to reformat and reload.

However, I booted up in windows 2 k consisting of disc to see that there is no HARD drive detected.
Then I went into the BIOS to see if it was detected he find that it is not.

I just want to check that I have reason to think that the HARD drive is actually dead?

Hello

It is possible that the HARD drive is faulty, but there may also be placed on the motherboard defective HARD disk controller. If possible, try to get another HARD drive and you will see if the new HARD drive is recognized correctly.

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