Guess who's going through some computer shit again.
So I was just going through my morning like usual, right? Then I get to my computer, and there I find it saying something about there not being a hard drive. Then I restart, and I focus a bit too long on "Shit, I should really reinstall Windows"
Normally I'd be like "Well, time to get a new hard drive" but I have files I wanna back up. Then I notice text when I try to start it up, but it went by really fast so I had to record and get a freeze frame.
Then after I finish recording I notice something else, after it says "Starting advanced recovery" or whatever it shows this: part of a blank command prompt, which again, I recorded and got a freeze frame of.
Eventually, I get the idea of trying to use a command prompt to help with my issue, since there's a command prompt in advanced recovery. I look up how to view drives, then I use the commands, and it's blank, like so:
Then, I take it as a sign that maybe my hard drive got unplugged internally or something, so I open it up and plug it back in some more, then I try again. No dice. Then I open up the BIOS/UEFI settings and I see that my hard drive is connected as SATA-0, but I look in the BIOS logs and...
However, when I looked on the inside, there was a port coming from the power cable for the hard drive not connected to anything labeled "P4", and on the other end is the cable plugged into the hard drive labeled "P3", like so:
So I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Help is very much appreciated.
(btw if it matters/helps, my PC is a Dell Optiplex and is on Windows 10)
So I was just going through my morning like usual, right? Then I get to my computer, and there I find it saying something about there not being a hard drive. Then I restart, and I focus a bit too long on "Shit, I should really reinstall Windows"
Normally I'd be like "Well, time to get a new hard drive" but I have files I wanna back up. Then I notice text when I try to start it up, but it went by really fast so I had to record and get a freeze frame.
Then after I finish recording I notice something else, after it says "Starting advanced recovery" or whatever it shows this: part of a blank command prompt, which again, I recorded and got a freeze frame of.
Eventually, I get the idea of trying to use a command prompt to help with my issue, since there's a command prompt in advanced recovery. I look up how to view drives, then I use the commands, and it's blank, like so:
Then, I take it as a sign that maybe my hard drive got unplugged internally or something, so I open it up and plug it back in some more, then I try again. No dice. Then I open up the BIOS/UEFI settings and I see that my hard drive is connected as SATA-0, but I look in the BIOS logs and...
However, when I looked on the inside, there was a port coming from the power cable for the hard drive not connected to anything labeled "P4", and on the other end is the cable plugged into the hard drive labeled "P3", like so:
So I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Help is very much appreciated.
(btw if it matters/helps, my PC is a Dell Optiplex and is on Windows 10)
