Black Square Image on Screen

There is an image of a black square with an up arrow on the lower right corner of my screen. Does anyone know what that is? Sometimes it has a line though it. Thanks.
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Ruggs,
Can you tell us a bit more? What model system do you have? What OS were you running?
When did this first happen? I.e. after any updates, etc?
If you go into the BIOS, does it see the hard disk listed?
Mark
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