Updated BIOS, Can't find partition

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I just ran the BIOS update on an ESS 400C. When I booted up after the
update, the hard drive is no longer recognized. Booting with a WN98
startup disk, it reports that there is no partition information.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

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Thanks for the replies. I basically went through everything in BIOS
setup and reset everything to default settings, and now everything is
fine. Weird, but working again. Now I get to try to get that Deskjet
to install which started all this mess in the first place.


On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:41:08 -0500, Deaconblues
<kevinra2001@nospamyahoo.com> wrote:

>I just ran the BIOS update on an ESS 400C. When I booted up after the
>update, the hard drive is no longer recognized. Booting with a WN98
>startup disk, it reports that there is no partition information.
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

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Clear the CMOS in the BIOS, then see if the drive is shown in the BIOS setup
screens. A motherboard BIOS sometimes behaves oddly after being updated, and
the important settings need to be re-entered or verified before doing anything
else... Ben Myers

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:41:08 -0500, Deaconblues <kevinra2001@nospamyahoo.com>
wrote:

>I just ran the BIOS update on an ESS 400C. When I booted up after the
>update, the hard drive is no longer recognized. Booting with a WN98
>startup disk, it reports that there is no partition information.
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

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You could have a couple of things happening.

1. You don't specify what operating system is installed. If it is
Windows XP and the hard drive is formatted with NTFS, it won't be recognized
by Windows 98.
2. If you boot with the W98 diskette, are you looking for the partition
with the FDISK utility?
3. If the partition can't be found, it could be that the drive needs the
LBA mode (or another mode in which it was partitioned and formatted) and the
BIOS is defaulting to something else. Look for a setting associated with
the drive and try cycling it through Auto/LBA/Large/Normal or whatever the
choices are.
4. It could be that the BIOS settings in CMOS are corrupted by the
upgrade. Try clearing the settings and/or using the new BIOS to load
default settings or safe settings.
5. It just could be you have had a hardware failure coincident with your
upgrade. Does the BIOS show detecting the presence of the drive?
6. Have you looked at the boot sequence settings in the BIOS?


"Deaconblues" <kevinra2001@nospamyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I just ran the BIOS update on an ESS 400C. When I booted up after the
> update, the hard drive is no longer recognized. Booting with a WN98
> startup disk, it reports that there is no partition information.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.