[jfields0622]

Though I know what this usually means, I don't believe my harddrive is dead.

The computer in question, was built by myself, It has a A8N-Sli Deluxe Asus Motherboard. Its running Sil 3114 SataRaid Bios Version 5.1.39, Phoenix Award. The Bio's is recognizing the Sony DVD RW drive which I have installed.

I have Windows 64 Bit installed on the harddrive which I was using, the computer has been working fine for almost a year now, and earlier it decided to lock-up not even allowing me to use ctrl-alt-delete to restart. So I rebooted the computer, and received the message disk boot failure error, insert system disk and press enter. I insert the windows 64 disk, and it says theres no harddrive to install windows into. I've also tried using my disk for my motherboard, but it says to insert a formatted floppy into drive b.

So, I figured what the heck, I'd try a different harddrive, I have 2 unused seagate 120 HDs and a Seagate 80gig. So I installed a Seagate HD into the desktop, but still nothing appeared in BIOs for a harddrive, and windows will still not install because no harddrive cannot be found. This is why I think there must be some other reason my computer is not booting, I have now, tried the original HD, plus an additional HD neither worked. My computer is not beeping out of the ordinary, but I did recognize that in Bios it is finding a floppy drive, that was never there before, and is not even installed on my computer.

I need some advice please

An additional note when I put the windows CD is, on the windows setup screen it makes it past all of the loading, to the part where it says repair or continue, but neither option will work, it just says setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer