Broke Laptop Help

[monster yummm 10+ year member]

Alright I know this isnt a computer forum. But it seems like some of you guys know your stuff about computers. Now I have an acer aspire 3680 laptop. Yesterday it was on my bed, and it fell off. And it completely erased everything. But the vista cd back in, but none of my hard drive drivers were in.

Now how can i put the necessary hard drive drivers back in?

That site has the drivers for my laptop, but i dont see any for the hard drives.

http://www.acerpanam.com/flex/acerdrivers/bin/drivers.html?CFID=5784930&CFTOKEN=52151056

Any help would be appreciated

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[pensacol 10+ year member]

You shouldn't need any drivers for your harddrive. Windows has generic drivers for the bus.

 

[monster yummm 10+ year member]

I put in the windows cd. And it loads it up, and it says for a place to install windows. But it says no drivers are there. And it says load drivers. So how do i load them?

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

go into the bios and make your cdrom the first boot device. it should boot into windows setup and during install the first thing it does is install the drivers

also make sure your hard drive didnt get knocked loose when you dropped the laptop

 

[pensacol 10+ year member]

When you dropped your laptop, either the harddrive came loose, or it damaged it. Cause it sounds like it's not finding the harddrive at all.

 

[sue bee 10+ year member]

please distinguish between hard drives (hardware) or drivers (software).

also, you need to check to make sure your hard drive is listed in the bios. then clarify what happens when you boot your laptop up without the vista cd. you basically need to start from scratch it sounds like...unless you can get to a recovery point via windows.

also, if you're up to it, you may want to locate your hard drive in your laptop, take it out, and firmly put it back in in case it was loosened by the fall.

 

[bk12321 10+ year member]

if its a SATA drive, it MIGHTT have the need for sata drivers before it can be used, but it should still be recognized as a hard drive

snoop around in the bios and try to make sure your hard drive is being detected

if its not, the drop probably killed it, hard drives arent the most "invincible" devices, they can get damaged pretty easily actually

 

[sue bee 10+ year member]

if its a SATA drive, it MIGHTT have the need for sata drivers before it can be used, but it should still be recognized as a hard drive
snoop around in the bios and try to make sure your hard drive is being detected

if its not, the drop probably killed it, hard drives arent the most "invincible" devices, they can get damaged pretty easily actually

the vista cd would have those sata drivers tho...so it should've picked up the hard drive if it was being recognized.

 

[monster yummm 10+ year member]

Alright

Im not very good with computer, but i appreciate all the help

What does the hard drive look like?

 

[monster yummm 10+ year member]

When i boot up the computer without the disk, it takes a while for it to load up and then it goes to a black screen and says operating system not found.

 

[monster yummm 10+ year member]

So its most likely a broke hard drive?

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

or you knocked it loose

finding the hard drive isnt hard, turn the pc over and unscrew/open the little doors until you find it

or save yourself the trouble and sell the laptop to me cheap and i will fix it

 

[Dingleberry 10+ year member]

Laptop parts like hard drives, etc. Are geared more towards mobility, so they can take a good beating.

But like most moving parts they'll break eventually. If it's a broken hard drive, you can buy another one and install your

recovery disk/windows disk.

 

[hoxie08 5,000+ posts]

i think its broken i'll buy it for 100 shipped.

 

[monster yummm 10+ year member]

I took the bottom off, and looked at the hard drive.

Took it out and put it back in, and no luck.

But nothing else could be broke if everything runs right? Just the hard drive?