Laptop dropped - trying to run hard drive test in bios, but can't find

CAn someone tell me how to run a hard drive test in bios - I am not seeing it in the menu at the initial screen after hitting F2. Is there a disk I need to insert?

The BIOS doesn't provide a HD diagnostic. The BIOS is firmware and is limited to providing
basic functions like recognizing devices on the buss or providing the user the ability to
load software to the HD.

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You have several options:
#1 Find all the files one-by-one by clicking on them and saying yes, you want to find the file, and browsing to it.
Plus: All metadata is retained.
Minus: Takes freaking forever and requires patience that can soon wear thin.
#2 Edit the iTunesLibrary.XML file using WordPad to point to the new paths, and then use the XML file to recreate the ITL.
Plus: Is a LOT faster than option #1.
Minus: Requires careful editing and loses the Date Added metadata.
#3 Something I tried and it worked, but you could seriously hork things up even worse if you answer hteitunes questions wrong, so I hesitate to mention it - change the itunes folder back to the original place and answer NO you don't want to move the library to the new settings. THen change it back to the exHD location and say yes,but don't have copy file turned on or you'll get duplicates.
Plus: On a 160GB library, it takes about 1 hour to fix all the links
Minus: Potential to mess things up even worse
#4 Start with a blank library and drag everything back in.
Plus: All your music can be played by itunes.
Minus: Lose all metatdata.
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I have just had my hard drive replaced and now I can't find Air Port for my wi fi

Go to your Applications folder>Utilities>AirportUtility.app>and there set up your Airport service. Then return to your Applications folder>Sytem Preferences>Network> and there turn on the WiFi on your iMac.
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If anyone is able to give me some advice I'd really appreciate it. I have seen similar issues on here and tried uninstalling then re-installing the driver which seemed to fix the similar issue on someone's Windows 7 system but it doesn't seem
to have worked for me. I also tried using the usb 2 drive rather than the usb 3.
I have a new cube laptop with Windows 8 (which I'm not used to yet at all) and am trying to access the files from the Maxtor hard-drive from my old pc. The hard-drive does not show up under file explorer but seems to appear in device manager. The
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Hi,
Apologize for the late reply.
How about the situation by now?
Could the external hard drive be shown in the
disk management?
Or take a look at the format of that hard drive(list disks) with diskpart command:
A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility
Check if the format is NTFS.
Also please take a look at the following article:
Help! After installing Windows 8.1, my USB drive disappears or file transfers
stop unexpectedly…
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I just transferred my hard drive to an external but I cannot find the location of all of my photographs. A caution message pops up every time I try to open my library. HELP!

Hello! So i'm not super computer savvy so bear with me. I just bought an external hard drive for my ibook and I believe I transferred everything to the external from my laptop. But, I'm having trouble finding all of my photographs on the external hard drive and I'm afraid I've lost a number of them because I deleted a large amount once I made the transfer. When I try to open my library from the external hard drive, a caution message pops up. I've looked at a number of discussion forums and tried to open iphoto with the option key to open a different library but there is only one library available and it takes me back to the photo library as it is on my laptop hard drive. Any suggestions? Does this mean I lost the photos I deleted? And if so, will someone help me learn how to trasnfer files properly?
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I just bought and hooked up my airport extreme. After having my room mate switch out his old networking devices and getting frustrated with trying to set it all up, I finished the job. I have the printer hooked up and can print from the 3 computers in the house. We wanted to hook up a shared hard drive so we can share work related materials. We plugged in the hard drive and both his pc and laptop can see and use it, but I can't find it anywhere.
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I was doing some maintenance with Onyx (repair permissions, clean caches) and something happened to my external hard drive that I use for Time Machine. Snow Leopard no longer recognizes that the drive exists. It is not listed as a drive in the Mac HD window and is not listed in the Time Machine preference window as a choice for use by Time Machine.
I have already tried the following: (1) unplugged the external drive and replugged it into the back of my iMac (2) restarted the iMac both with and without the external drive plugged in (3) shut down the iMac and restarted both ways (4) pulled the plug on the iMac and restarted. Nothing works and the drive remains unrecognized. In all the attempts, I can feel that the external drive is spinning and it is still warm to the touch. It appears to be working.
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My hard drive is nearly full but I cant find whats taking up all my hard drive space

I have an intel macbook pro with 500 internal HD.
I have 160gb of music in my itues folder with another 7gb on a previous library, I am unable to find the size info of my applications folder but I susspect it to be around 50gb, however I only have 59 gb of free HD space remaining. How to I find out what is using the remainder od my hard drive space? I have not yet checked my iphoto. where would this be? Is there someway of checking to see what folders are the bigest on my hard drive?
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Hard Drive fills up and I can't find what is filling it

I have twice in the last month received a warning that my hard drive was very full and I should move some files. I had abou 300 MB free. The first time it did this I cleared it until I had about 11 G free. I was careful to quickly move files after that.
When it happened last week, I didn't have much I could remove, so I cleared out Garageband and some other items and cleared 6G.
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Hi, Sheila —
Edit: Great news! SInce I'd already written this when I saw your 2nd post, I thought I'd post it anyway, as it includes a couple of other suggestions...
(1) You may find Dr. Smoke's Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk FAQ useful.
(2) What about "invisible" files? Many folks facing problems like you describe eventually discover just how much space is taken up by invisible files — not accessible by Finder — and that some of them may be unnecessary. For example, if you've ever used Norton Antivirus, it may have have created spacesuckingfile.xxxxxx — a huge (and hidden) file that you'd definitely want to "seek-and destroy." (This article tells how.)
The 3rd-party utilities WhatSize or OmniDiskSweeper can help you to identify "invisible" files that may be using a lot of disk capacity — but, if you don't know what something is/does, please don't delete it. Post back for help.
Anyway, my guess is that between (1) and (2), you'll be able to "clean house" pretty well...
(3) Btw, I'm confused why you'd think that an erase & install process would preclude your using Classic... would you please explain the basis for that idea?
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I guess you could take a look at this iLounge Article anyway. In some cases the database on a device can be wiped without actually deleting the hidden media content. Even if it has been wiped there may be a chance that an undelete tool could restore the deleted files, but it is a long shot. Either way the playlists are gone for good.
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Had to put new hard drive on computer now i can't find my music

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