cant detect hard drive on amilo 2727 laptop

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cant detect hard drive on amilo 2727 laptop
my mates gave me laptop to look at , upon bootin it goes through the siemens splash screen the i get this message.
pxe-e61 :media test failure , check cable
pxe-m0f : exiting pxe rom
operating system not found
i have tried to install win 7 + win xp but i get this message , no hard drive found
when i enter bios all that is showing on main page is
cpu type
cpu speed
install memory
system bios version
vga bios version
kbc version
serial no
product name
manufacture name
uuid version
no sign of hdd

[killie99]

cant detect hard drive on amilo 2727 laptop
my mates gave me laptop to look at , upon bootin it goes through the siemens splash screen the i get this message.
pxe-e61 :media test failure , check cable
pxe-m0f : exiting pxe rom
operating system not found
i have tried to install win 7 + win xp but i get this message , no hard drive found
when i enter bios all that is showing on main page is
cpu type
cpu speed
install memory
system bios version
vga bios version
kbc version
serial no
product name
manufacture name
uuid version
no sign of hdd

the pxe messages are because it's trying to boot over the network (because it can't find tht hard drive). Have you taken the hard drive out and tried it in another machine to make sure it isn't just plain old broken?