| Author | Message | ||
     Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese  Post Number: 2187 Registered: 7-2004  |
I am putting a hard drive in a computer. The old one died. Now the new one will not be recognized. BIOS sees it there, and can read the capacity. . But it will not boot to it. It says something like "Primary 0 hard disk not found Primary 1 hard disk not found Secondary 1 hard disk not found" I changed the boot order for CD first, and popped in an XP CD. Going through that, the computer saw the drive, and formatted it. The CD then copied some files over to the drive and restarted. But I am having the same problem of before with the drive not being recognized. I just don't know what to do. | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 2188 Registered: 7-2004 |
Jumper setting are correct. I put them to master, but I have also tried cable select. Also, BIOS recognizes the CD drive, and it will work, but when I moved the hard drive to that slot, and took out the CD drive, the computer still did not regogize the drive. | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 2197 Registered: 7-2004 |
OK, this makes it stranger. When you boot to CD, and choose F12 (Bootup Options) and then switch to "C: Hard Disk", it boots up to the hard drive. But why wouldn't this work normally? Anyone have any ideas? | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 2198 Registered: 7-2004 |
Alright, so I installed windows by using the loophole in the F12 function. Now it continues to tell me that there is nothing detected in primary 0 or 1, and to press F1 to continue. When I press this windows loads up. How do I get rid of this error message? | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4603 Registered: 7-2002  |
buy a Mac... how is your CMOS battery, does it need replaced by chance? | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 2205 Registered: 7-2004 |
Well, if anyone cares, I fixed it (sort of). Apparently the computer did not like the BIOS setting of the "quick bootup." Now it checks the ram, and takes an extra second at startup, but it goes through without error. Very strange. | ||
| Monster© Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 4620 Registered: 7-2002 |
BIOS McCheesey, BIOS!!!! |
