I have a system that the hard drive seems to have physically crashed. The systetit is in will not even see it. So I put it in another working system and that system will not see it either. The strange thing is on the first system when I go into setup, it seems like there are settings missing. There is no place to autodetect the drives. The system is only about 3 years old. When I go into "Standard settings" which normally will show date, time, video, floppy drive and Master/Slave primary and secondary, there is nothing for Master/Slave primary and secondary. Any ideas? Is the motherboard fried also?
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Why is BIOS not showing hard drive info
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Sounds like your HD is toast since you tried it in another system with no better results. However did you try the other HD from the 2nd system in your 1st system. If it can see it then it would confirm that that the 1st HD is bad! If, however, it also can't see the 2nd drive then you may have other problems!
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Yes I did try the 2nd drive in the first system and the same result. In fact if I put a 98 startup disk in the A: drive it will not start run the diskette. The A drive works but it won't run the 98 startup disk. I know it works because I tried to run Maxtor diagnostics (it is a Quantum drive). The diagnostics opened but wouldn't run correctly. I am afraid it is also the Motherboard
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