Hard Drive Problems

[One]

I get a error when I replaced a hard drive in a laptop.  The Error says "No boot sector on internal hard drive"  and No bootable devices.  If you could help get this laptop working that would be much appreciated.

[Technane]

well the disk is blank it litterlly has nothing on it? did you backup your laptop before u swapped the drive? or was the original disk broken? 

[One]

Original Hard drive crapped out, but i'm loading windows right now

[Technane]

well that should get you back up n running, so the origin drive? did you RMA it? 

 

Hard drives none SSD usually have 5-10 years Warranty's 

I RMA drives i find lying about lol! some people just don't seem to understand that. 

note they wont recover your data! 

 

but if hte drive is still spinning you can use a usb caddy and something llke 'get data back NTFS' to recover the actual data

[One]

I didn't RMA it and it was a WD Scorpio Blue 320GB.  I have had the laptop for 6 years, can I still send it to them?

[Technane]

go here : 

http://support.wdc.com/warranty/

 

and check the warranty status, they may need the actual fault codes before they will replace it but if its seized or not spinning and not damaged from a drop or something they should replace. 

[One]

Is the serial number S/N?

[One]

Aw man it expired. I guess I'll make a coaster out of it.  

[trevory323]

Is the serial number S/N?

Yes

[Technane]

put a drill through it and dump it in the trash!