Laptop help - please

[Weirdaholik-Gaming-Group]

Hi guys! 

 

So I am in serious need of some help with my laptop, I bought an Acer ES1-512 like 2 years ago now, so the warranty run out and only now is when the problem came up - so no suggestions on returning it to manufacturer to get this fixed .

The 500GB HDD that was in there stopped working (makes a clicky noise - which I don't remember what it means, if it's just dead or one of the screws came loose or whatever).

When it boots it just comes up with a black screen and a image of a hard drive with a magnifying glass and text saying ''no bootable device''.

So my first thought was - Ok let's get in to the bios and change the boot sequence so I could pop a win 7 install dvd and maybe reinstall windows.

Well after the splash screen (with acer logo) it goes straight to the missing hard drive screen. Also on the splash screen it doesn't show you what to press to get in to the bios. I have tried F2 F9 F10 F12 and Del buttons as those are the most common buttons that require pressing to get into the bios (or atleast from my experience).

But anyway I had a spare laptop HDD (160GB) so I installed a copy of win 7 32bit on to the spare 160GB HDD, and replaced them coz I figured maybe if it has a bootable device with windows on there then it will skip that screen, and still nothing.

So I have no idea what to do now and I'm kind of stuck.

I was wondering if anybody else knew what to do. If not then I guess I will just have to pawn it off on eBay as spares or repairs, which would be a shame because it's a decent laptop and I could really need to for my college work.

 

Thanks to whoever reads this and takes a minute or two to pop down a suggestion!

- Pascal

[dantayy]

Did you install windows on the spare HDD or did you move the installation file onto the spare HDD?

[Weirdaholik-Gaming-Group]

I installed win 7 on the spare hard drive 160GB, took out the old one 500GB, and then plugged the spare 160GB with win 7 in to the laptop.