BIOHD-5 boot path error, is my hard drive fried?

deebee

I installed windows 7 last week on my HP desktop, when I switched on today - nothing!, did a diagnostics check, everything passed except i got a BIOHD-5 message, please contact HP support (which I have done), is my hard drive fried? I can buy a new hard drive - saw a 1TB samsung on e-buyer for £65 delivered, will this solve the problem???

davb

You could try this
1. Restart the computer.
2. Keep tapping the F10 key to enter the BIOS Setup Utility.
3. Select the Diagnostic tab.
4. Select the "hard drive self test" on the primary hard drive and run both the short and extended hard drive tests
Note: This test takes some time

scottishblondie

Can you hear the disk spinning up? If it does then it could be a software problem. Try booting from the Windows install disk and see if you can repair the installation or something.