Drive found but not there!!

[ocean14]

I boot up and the BIOS recognises a hard drive and describes the make under Primary. However it claims not to be able to find a boot record. I have run this disk (windows 2000) on another machine and it boots fine, so it is intact. I have also tried other known good drives with OS's installed.
When I boot using a start up disk, a virtual C: loads, (MS-RAMDRIVE) effectively telling me there is no physical C: drive installed.

The drive is obviously partitioned, and after running Tuff test pro, there are no controller / board errors reported. I have stripped and reloaded the BIOS, but no avail- same result.

Any glaring clues anyone? The drive is a maxtor.

 

[Lemon13]

make sure you use the same emulation in bios than in the "working" pc (heads/sector/lba......).

if you do and doesnt help try

http://www.mostlycreativeworkshop.com/News-article-sid-11-mode-thread.html