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Question posted by gerardorestrepo on January 17th, 2013

No Boot Disk Has Been Detected Or The Disk Has Failed

Mi equipo no arranca sale el siguiente mensaje No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed

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Answer #1: Posted by tintinb on January 24th, 2013 7:56 AM

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Obviously, the problem of your laptop computer is related to the physical hard disk. Your laptop cannot detect and boot disk (Hard Disk) to load the Operating System. The only way to fix this problem is to replace the boot disk or hard disk of your computer. You can read some step-by-step tutorial articles from the links provided below.

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 2

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 5

Aspire S3 MS2346 CHAPTER 1 Hardware Specifications Features 1-3 Operating System 1-3 Platform 1-3 System Memory 1-3 Display 1-3 Graphics 1-3 Storage Subsystem 1-4 Audio Subsystem 1-4 Communication 1-4 Privacy Control 1-4 Power Adapter and Battery 1-5 Keyboard and ...

Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 8

... Jumper and Connector Locations Mainboard Layout 5-3 Clearing Password Check and BIOS Recovery 5-5 Clearing the BIOS Passwords 5-5 Performing a BIOS Recovery 5-6 CHAPTER 6 FRU List Aspire S3 MS2346 Exploded Diagrams 6-4 Main Assembly 6-4 FRU List 6-6 CHAPTER 7 Test Compatible Components Microsoft Windows 7 Environment Test 7-3 CHAPTER 8 Online Support Information Online Support Information...

Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 12

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 15

...× 8.52 × 0.51/0.68 in) Weight 0 1.33 kg (2.93 lbs) (including battery) for models with SSD disk drive 1.35 kg (2.98 lbs) (including battery) for models with HDD disk drive Environment 0 Temperature: Operating: 0 to 40 °C Non-operating: -20 to 60...

Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 26

... Specifications and Configurations Press  to Enabled. 5. Press F10 to save settings and close the BIOS Setup screen. 6. Restart the computer. 2. D2D Recovery 0 The Acer Disk to Disk (D2D) recovery function allows you to use the recovery partition to troubleshoot your computer to factory condition.

Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 27

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 30

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 48

... system. Figure 2-8. Network boot 4. External USB bootable device 3. Boot 0 Use this tab to set the preferred drive sequence in the following order: 1. By default, the computer searches for boot devices in which the Setup Utility attempts to move it up or down the list. BIOS Boot 2-10 System Utilities Hard disk drive 2. External USB hard...

Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 50

... the BIOS file as "XXXXXXX.FD". 2. Copy the "XXXXXXX.FD" file to finish loading BIOS Flash, do not boot system. Insert the USB device containing the renamed BIOS file and the Crisis Recovery disk files to update the system BIOS Flash ROM. Use the Flash utility to any USB port. 5. Perform the...

Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 73

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 115

... HDD module in the bracket (1) and then secure the HDD bracket using four screws (2). Replacing the HDD Module 0 NOTE: NOTE: For models that have SSD disk drive installed, please proceed to the HDD module.

Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 140

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 148

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 152

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 158

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 166

... USB flash drive's root directory. 7. Prepare a removable USB flash drive. Performing a BIOS Recovery 0 Boot Block 0 An interruption during the creation of the crisis disk. 2. Set up a system with minimum BIOS initialization.You need to access and execute the boot block to reboot the computer and recover the regular BIOS code. For example, the...

Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 167

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 171

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Acer Aspire S3-391 Notebook Service Guide - Page 177

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