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BIOS not recognizing HDD

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April 6, 2003 3:22:15 PM

Building a new PC with new ASUS MB, Intel CPU, and memory. Using some old components like a Western Digital Caviar 36400 HDD. Can't get the BIOS to recognize HDD. Currently, I have the HD and a new CD-RW installed. CD will read the WIN2K for install but when I boot up, Primary and secondary drives not recognized and it looks for bootable drive. I have checked jumpers, HDD is master and CD is slave. No floppy installed yet but I do have an older one ready. Any suggestions.

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April 6, 2003 4:25:47 PM

try disconnecting one drive or the other first. If you have the Bios set to auto detect for both master and slave position this will tell you what jumper setting it is on and you can adjust them accordingly. If you can, just put one drive on the first IDE controler and move the other to a second IDE controler.

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April 6, 2003 4:28:11 PM

Try putting the drive in another PC as a slave and doing all the diagnostic things (scan disk etc...) and maybe re-format & look for bad sectors. Also try using 80 pin shielded cable. Other than that if you don't see in the bios maybe get a bios upgrade - other than that your drive might be broken; if you have no drive in the bios, you certainly won't be able to install an OS to it.

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April 9, 2003 1:18:36 PM

trying using CS.. Cable select. Because you probly have the primary on the second port on the IDE cable. It could be messing with the configration. The first port on the IDE is for Primary and the second for slave. It should matter were on the cable you put them if you have a new motherboard.

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April 9, 2003 5:01:15 PM

Actually to free the drives from position-on-cable restraints you would use Master/Slave jumpering. Cable select is a pain in the ass.

The boot disk should be Master... whatever else is on the cable would be the slave.


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