Re: FN-FORUM invisible HD

date posted 13th January 2003 20:03

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> yet more hardware agro !
>
> I have a clients hard drive here that just stopped being
> picked up by his motherboard so I brought it home to
> plug into my machine thinking it was their new system
> that was at fault, but no. Its plugged in now as primary
> drive and windows doesn't pick it up at all. Not even
> some kind of error.
>
> Anybody any ideas.
>

Most BIOS have Auto-detect HDD. Give that try. If that doesn't work it
might be the master/slave settings. If that still doesn't work I would say
dead controller on the HDD. Time for those backups

Rus
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