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hdneto17

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Since: Feb 03, 2006
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:27 pm
Post subject: whats wrong with hard drive in BIOS?
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My motherboard BIOS isn't recognizing my hard drive after I screwed
around with the settings(its pretty messed up). How can I set
everything to default so the motherboard can recognize the hard drive
from the master IDE.

PS I could give you the specs and all but I in kind of a hurry but I'll
post it if its necessary.

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daytripper

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Since: Nov 18, 2003
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:56 pm
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On 4 Feb 2006 20:27:29 -0800, wrote:

>My motherboard BIOS isn't recognizing my hard drive after I screwed
>around with the settings(its pretty messed up). How can I set
>everything to default so the motherboard can recognize the hard drive
>from the master IDE.
>
>PS I could give you the specs and all but I in kind of a hurry but I'll
>post it if its necessary.

Unless it's some coal-fired relic that requires full manual CHS settings, just
direct the cmos setup utility to auto-configure the hard drive...

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George Macdonald

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:31 am
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On 4 Feb 2006 20:27:29 -0800, wrote:

>My motherboard BIOS isn't recognizing my hard drive after I screwed
>around with the settings(its pretty messed up). How can I set
>everything to default so the motherboard can recognize the hard drive
>from the master IDE.
>
>PS I could give you the specs and all but I in kind of a hurry but I'll
>post it if its necessary.

It would help if we knew if this is a fairly recent system or an antique
mbrd. What was it you "screwed around" with? You should be able to go
into BIOS Setup, make sure the IDE channel is enabled and "Auto" detect the
drive. Is the HDD not seen at all or does the boot fail? If the latter,
DL a copy of BootitNG from www.bootitng.com and see what its partition
manager sees on the HDD.

--
Rgds, George Macdonald
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hdneto17

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Since: Feb 04, 2006
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:15 am
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Forget, stupidest problem in the world. Didn't have to the power
plugged into the hard drive, so thats why the BIOS didn't recognize
it...duh?

Thanks you
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