my computer is......broken...lol....when i START it it has a blinking white line...i put windows xp on it and have been running that for a while but since i got the blinking line and lost my xp disk i just wanted to run the backup disk that came with the computer....it is milenium but win i put it in and it starts to run it says there was no hard disk found.....i know there is a hd in there and ive disconnected and reconnected many many times.....Why is it saying there isnt one and how can i fix it? i have an HP its an old hand-me-down but it (usually) works fine....thats pretty much all i know about it.....any help would be greatly appreciated
thanksit could be something to do with the bios dying. I am a little comfused on what os you are using?. also listing your computer specs would be good: e.g. memory, os, hardware1)i "Was" using Windows XP but then my computer broke....2)i lost the xp disk....3)i went to use the milenium backup disk that came with the computer 4)it gave me a message saying it found no hd....

ummm
its an HP
28 gig maxtor hd *that isnt working APARENTLY*
512 ram
?? for os...i dont think it currently has one....yeah....uhh...
thats pretty much all i know about it....yeahthe specs help a lot. me disk might not work on an xp system because of different system filesso even if the computer had milenium originally it still WONT work?You are getting some erroneous info here...
First off BIOS's don't just start dying...i'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean.
Secondly if it is the CD that came with the machine it should work fine.
OEM copies will only install on the same BRAND of PC.
If the hard drive is not being detected try checking the IDE and power connections to make sure they are SEATED properly. If it's still not detected find out what make it is and DLoad and run the diagnostics from the HDD manuf. website.What does it do when you use a windows ME bootdisk?

The below download is used to make a bootdisk.
You don't just copy it to a floppy disk.It writes the
floppy boot disk.

--------->MEBootdisk