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IDE Auto Detect Not Recognising Drive
Thanks to all who responded ... I now regard the problem as closed ... It appears that I had an intermitant hard drive power up problem. I have since installed a new hard drive and imaged across from the old one. Thanks again.- Retired1998
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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IDE Auto Detect Not Recognising Drive
Wolluf, The reason he would not reveal what he had done was that he normally charges for his work and he was doing me a free favour ! I guess he regarded it as a trade secret ? However, I repeat, The BIOS autodetect refused to detect the hard drive and he did not go into the BIOS, as I saw him...- Retired1998
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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IDE Auto Detect Not Recognising Drive
Recently the hard drive on my Windows 98 system went AWOL ! It was not recognised by the BIOS at start-up. The BIOS "Auto Detect Hard Discs" failed (i.e. NONE) and when I tried to re-create the MBR via FDISK (from a Windows 98 Start Up Disc) the message “no discs installed” came up...- Retired1998
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