I went to turn my htpc on today and it wont boot... It shows the bios flash screen for an unusually long length of time, then tells me to restart and select proper boot media. I went into the bios and I cant see my HDD with the OS on it in the boot menu, just the one with data on it.
I tried Norton ghost to restore and the option to restore to my C drive is not there just the data drive again.
I dont hear any clicking or grinding noises when I turn the pc on but there is a bit of HDD activitiy immediately after powering on then nothing. I guess the disk can still be poked and not make funny noises though.
Does this sound like a physical failure rather than a logical one to you?
Is there anything else I can do before I have to disasseble half of my home theatre unit and half of my htpc to get the drive out?
Cheers