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Hi. Turned on my Presario CQ61-110SA notebook this morning and after a bit of bleeping I'm confronted with the 'No bootable devic - insert boot disk and press any key' message.
I went through the various F10 diagnostics, but no joy - the system doesn't recognise a hard drive. Then, following the handbook advice, I carefully took out the hard drive and replaced it (three times!) in case it had disconnected. Again, no joy.
Now, I have recovery disks from way back when I first got the computer, but I don't want to use those yet - there's valuable information on the hard drive that I really don't want to lose.
So, my question is this: is there another way of fixing this or at least of temporarily rebooting the computer (using the first recovery disk???) so that I can retrieve the data after which I can reset with the recovery disks?
P.s. I'm using Vista

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