where my HDD?

[moonrose]

ok so let me start by saying my friend messed up a computer and didn't know what she was doing.... she did something while in windows i believe.

i get this message when booting up that says:

"reboot and select proper boot device
or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key_"

ok so after that i went into the bios and set the boot priority to what it is supposed to be:
1- cd-rom
2- Hdd
3- disabled

and after that i still got the message.
well then i noticed that the bios is not even recognizing the HDD,
its a sata drive, and in the bios where it list the detected components it just says
not detected for either of my sata slots.

im pretty sure the HDD is working i can feel the disk spinning inside.
could it have just died??

help please??
thank you!

 

[Prometheus]

Check your BIOS and make sure the SATA is enabled.

 

[moonrose]

sata is enabled because the bios recognizes the sata cdrom drive
why would it not recognize the HDD, unless there is something else im missing.

 

[Prometheus]

Is it a SATA 1.5 or a SATA 3 (SATA II)