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Is the hard drive bad?
Fixing my friends computer and I ran into the problem of this (picture one)
Looked it up, I found out that either the hard drive is bad or the hard drive cables are loose (or something), or that the boot order is wrong in the BIOS. I set the BIOS to the default boot order. Took the computer apart and unpluged and repluged the cables. The problem still persists. So is the hard drive bad? I was able to format the hard drive from the Windows 8 installation and install Windows 8 on it with what it seemed to be no problem. Note: This problem persisted before any adjustments were made to the computer (i.e. before installing Windows 8).
(picture two is BIOS boot order)
Thanks in advance.