Hard Drive not recognized in bios or by windows xp
I have a Dell inspirion 4000 that would not boot up at all. It couldn't find the hd at all. I went out and purchased a new hitachi travelstar 20 gb hd and installed it, and it still gives me the same...
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I had the same problem on my pc the other day. All I had to do was change the IDE cable and reset the CMOS and everything was fine. Have you tried changing the cable?
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Check the jumpers: Jumper might be incorrect (set to master if not sure) Replace cable: Might be a bad cable Reset BIOS: Remove AC cable and remove battery for 10seconds-2minutes or use jumper if...
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thanks for the response, however i have a phoenix bios, and have no idea of how to reset it, there is nothing showing in the bios to do so. As far as setting the jumper, the old hard drive had no...
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You may also have a setting in BIOS that tells the computer to auto-detect the HDD parameters. On rare occassions, that setting is corrupted. If it is set to detect a specific set of drive attributes,...
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