I have a drive that completely died. Wouldnt spin up, etc. I ordered the exact drive and replaced the controller board and now the drive will spin up. BUT - It is only being detected (in the bios) as a slave (and only if no master is installed with it). When its as a slave it appears in the bios correctly with the right size, etc. I was thinking the partion information is lost, so I was going to reset the partition up and hopefully recover the/some of the data. But when I do the Fdisk command it says 'no fixed disk present'. Im assuming Im getting this error because the disk isnt in the master state. Any ideas why it wont post as a master? And anything I can try would be very helpful. The drive had windows98 (FAT32) on it originally. Its a Seagate 17.2gig (ST317722A).
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HD Problem
- Thread starter rcriii
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I would double check the jumper settings on the drive and make sure it is set as a master. If it's set to master I would try to get into the BIOS and then load the default settings and reboot. If it still comes up saying it's slave, then you want to make sure you have the latest BIOS update for your system.
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