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In my many years of working with PCs and Windows there was one basic fact
that I thought was obvious, but today another credible person in the
business has told me otherwise, so I would like to substantiate either his
or my understanding of computer BIOS and Windows device detection. I have
scoured the net and can find no evidence supporting either arguement.
The simple question is this:
If a disk drive is DISABLED in BIOS, is Windows able to detect it anyway?
It has always been both my understanding and practical experience that
Windows can only detect what is reported to it by the BIOS. If you have
manually disabled a drive in BIOS there should be no way Windows can detect
it. Like I said, in my own experience (as recently as yesterday), Windows
cannot see a drive until it is enabled in BIOS.
Today I am being told otherwise.
Are there circumstances where I am incorrect?
Please assume IDE drive connected to mainboard onboard IDE controller.
If you can back up your answer by some link/website, it would be great. I
even searched MSKB.
I found this, but it is somewhat outdated:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;66706
Also, if this isn't the best place to ask this question, please guide me
somewhere else.
Thanks!
hamm3r
In my many years of working with PCs and Windows there was one basic fact
that I thought was obvious, but today another credible person in the
business has told me otherwise, so I would like to substantiate either his
or my understanding of computer BIOS and Windows device detection. I have
scoured the net and can find no evidence supporting either arguement.
The simple question is this:
If a disk drive is DISABLED in BIOS, is Windows able to detect it anyway?
It has always been both my understanding and practical experience that
Windows can only detect what is reported to it by the BIOS. If you have
manually disabled a drive in BIOS there should be no way Windows can detect
it. Like I said, in my own experience (as recently as yesterday), Windows
cannot see a drive until it is enabled in BIOS.
Today I am being told otherwise.
Are there circumstances where I am incorrect?
Please assume IDE drive connected to mainboard onboard IDE controller.
If you can back up your answer by some link/website, it would be great. I
even searched MSKB.
I found this, but it is somewhat outdated:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;66706
Also, if this isn't the best place to ask this question, please guide me
somewhere else.
Thanks!
hamm3r