Error BIOHD4

[Neal Dalondy]

Hello, I have been having trouble with my hard drive for a couple weeks now and even reformatting it didn't help. I have an HP p6774y with an EVGA Gtx 660 and 8gb of corsair vengeance DDR3.  For about two weeks every time it restarts it stops at a black screen with some words on it (I'll post a picture soon). The only way I could get around it is to go into the boot menu and select my hard drive. I ran the diagnostics and it said the boot system is corrupt or isn't there. Also I noticed alot of my game's have been much slower and some of them didn't even work anymore. So I decided to wipe everything and reinstall windows with a recovery disk I made years ago hoping that would fix everything. Sadly I still have the boot problem.  So I'm not really sure what to do, is my hard drive going to always have this problem? 

[paddy-stone]

Windows 7 by any chance?

 

You could take a look here https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/missing-boot-devicehp-error-biohd4bsod-and-other-oddities/

[Neal Dalondy]

Oh yes it is windows 7. Hehehe forgot to mention that part.

[Neal Dalondy]

So I reformatted a spare hard drive I had with the same recovery disk mentioned before and now it works fine and doesn't have any trouble booting up. My setup Is all the same except for the hard drive. Anyone know how I can fix my old hard? I want to completely erase everything on it and start over as if it were brand new.