A build I put together recently shut down on its own after a day or two of running fine. Obviously the first thing I did was try to power on, but I got a message that there wasn't a valid operating system on the device. So I did a little troubleshooting.
First I plugged in my flash drive to boot Backtrack, which it ran fine, to see if I could find anything wrong in the files or at least salvage some before reinstalling Windows, but it didn't even show the hard drive.
So I instead booted a partition manager on the same flash, with similar results.
Then I opened the flash drive and just selected "boot from first HD" it showed an error message that it could not define device parameters. I also tried running Super Grub 2 to detect the OS, but it couldn't find it either. I'm fairly sure the cables are all plugged in fine, so my question is is it fixable, if so how, or do I need to return it?
First I plugged in my flash drive to boot Backtrack, which it ran fine, to see if I could find anything wrong in the files or at least salvage some before reinstalling Windows, but it didn't even show the hard drive.
So I instead booted a partition manager on the same flash, with similar results.
Then I opened the flash drive and just selected "boot from first HD" it showed an error message that it could not define device parameters. I also tried running Super Grub 2 to detect the OS, but it couldn't find it either. I'm fairly sure the cables are all plugged in fine, so my question is is it fixable, if so how, or do I need to return it?