Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is) is a potential red flag of a dead drive, or a corrupted operating system. If you see it, you’re going to want to run something like [https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD (Mustdisable Secure Boot if XX40 or newer-XX30 MIGHT need to be disabled if updated to enable Secure Boot)] to make sure it works. You can run something that will do SMART testing and that should be sufficient to confirm if it’s a problem with the software or drive.
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Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is). PXE boot is a common sign of a bad hard drive or bad OS, but often a bad drive. If you see the hard drive, run [link|https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD|new_window=true] to see if the drive is present and reading data reliably. Once confirmed to be good, run a SMART test and do a self-test to make sure it isn't bad.
If the drive has detection issues, do not mess with it if you need her laptop to work - replace it.
Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is) is a potential red flag of a dead drive, or a corrupted operating system. If you see it, you’re going to want to run something like [https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD (Must disable Secure Boot if XX40 or newer)] to make sure it works. You can run something that will do SMART testing and that should be sufficient to confirm if it’s a problem with the software or drive.
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Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is) is a potential red flag of a dead drive, or a corrupted operating system. If you see it, you’re going to want to run something like [https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD (Must disable Secure Boot if XX40 or newer- XX30 MIGHT need to be disabled if updated to enable Secure Boot)] to make sure it works. You can run something that will do SMART testing and that should be sufficient to confirm if it’s a problem with the software or drive.
If the drive has detection issues, do not mess with it if you need her laptop to work - replace it.
Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is) is a potential red flag of a dead drive, or a corrupted operating system. If you see it, you’re going to want to run something like [https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD (Must disable Secure Boot if XX40 or newer)] to make sure it works.
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Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is) is a potential red flag of a dead drive, or a corrupted operating system. If you see it, you’re going to want to run something like [https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD (Must disable Secure Boot if XX40 or newer)] to make sure it works. You can run something that will do SMART testing and that should be sufficient to confirm if it’s a problem with the software or drive.
If the drive has detection issues, do not mess with it if you need her laptop to work - replace it.
Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is) is a flag of a dead drive, or a corrupted operating system. If you see it, you’re going to want to run something like [https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD (Must disable Secure Boot if XX40 or newer)] to make sure it works.
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Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is) is a potential red flag of a dead drive, or a corrupted operating system. If you see it, you’re going to want to run something like [https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD (Must disable Secure Boot if XX40 or newer)] to make sure it works.
If the drive has detection issues, do not mess with it if you need her laptop to work - replace it.
Check if you see a hard drive present in the BIOS - LAN boot (which is what this Realek PXE message you’re seeing is) is a flag of a dead drive, or a corrupted operating system. If you see it, you’re going to want to run something like [https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd|Hiren’s Boot CD (Must disable Secure Boot if XX40 or newer)] to make sure it works.
If the drive has detection issues, do not mess with it if you need her laptop to work - replace it.