No Hard Drives Present
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Name: Harry Corning
Date: August 1, 2002 at 03:36:30 Pacific
Subject: No Hard Drives Present
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Comment: Was running Windows ME and system crashed with blue screen. Since then, booted with ME start up floppy. I see WD 20 gig drive in BIOS when I go to set up. But FDISK gives the Infamous "No Hard Drives Present". Have swapped cables, disconnected (and drive dissappears from BIOS of course). Finally installed different drive and it is recognized and has a drive letter assigned (C). Could the WD 20gig drive have a virus in the boot record that prevents drive letter assignment? I down loade WD diagnostics and they don't see the drive either.
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Response Number 1
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Name: Petit Jean
Date: August 1, 2002 at 08:46:17 Pacific
Subject: No Hard Drives Present |
Reply: (edit)The HD controller is on the drive. Have the drive checked by the technician at the store where you bought it. Failed unit? You switched to a spare unit and the PC works. so.. Some stores offer replacement at no cost under warranty.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Old Jake
Date: August 7, 2002 at 16:45:19 Pacific
Subject: No Hard Drives Present
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Reply: (edit)
I've just now solved my own "No fixed disks present" problem.
I had got hold of a multibay adapter for my laptop and used it to backup the data from a drive with a tired W95 installation to another drive, and wanted to wipe the first drive and install W3.11 The drive could be FDISKed from another hard drive, but not from a floppy. MBRTOOL could wipe the master boot record and in thinking of other low-level utilities that might help I tried DEFRAG, which fixed the problem! I hope setting the problem drive as slave and using DEFRAG will help others.
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