I have a custom built AMD Athlon 800MHz sytstem that just had the hard drive replaced about a month ago. Occassionally when I boot my machine, my computer does not detect my hard drive. I can reboot several times and it will do the same thing. If I let it sit for awhile and come back to it, then it boots up fine but when I reboot again, it doesn't detect it. Can anyone tell me what's going on? I would really appreciate any help anyone can give me?
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PC Not detecting Hard Drive
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One thing you might check is in the BIOS, look for and disable Fast Bootup/Quick Boot [may have another name for it]. Sometimes the drive/s don't get fully recognized before the computer has booted up. It was a big problem back in 486 days as they got faster but the drives didn't.
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