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Hello all,
I read posts regarding issues with drive types on this forum:
http://www.computing.net/windows31/wwwboard/forum/10744.html
http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/15305.html
and do hope that somebody can help me.I have been listening to continuous and very annoying beeps from the BIOS of my PC and decided to figure out what the problem is. I have found a "Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Replacement Setup Program" from http://www.bios-info.de/ --> the last program tool in the download list at the end of the webpage, named "setup". When I run it, it displays that:
"Errors have been found during the power on self test in your computer. The errors were:
HARD DISK 1 FAILED INITIALIZATION
Setup will atempt to correct this errors through auto-configuration. Press any key to continue."When I press a key the setup program lists values for time, date, diskette, etc. and there is also this "Hard Disk 1: Not Installed" entry. But I have to decide what TYPE of HDD1 I have among "Type 1" through "Type 49". "Drive types 48 and 49 are user-definable", according to the Setup Program help.
My hard disk drive is
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9, Model 6Y080L0, 80GB, 7200 RPM, 2MB Cache Buffer, ATA/133 Interface
BUT I could not find the drive type of this HDD in the manufacturer's technical data. I read somewhere that it has 16383 cylinders but I need also values for: Drive Type | (Cylinders) | Heads | Precomp | Zone | Sectors | MegabytesCan anyone please tell me what drive type to specify? Please help - thank you!

Hi again,
I have found out that my HDD has:Capacity 81 GB | Cylinder 39236 | Head 16 | Precomp 0 | Land Zone 39235 | Sector 255
BUT now I have another problem: the mentioned Phoenix ROM BIOS tool does not allow to enter more than 4 digits for the Cylinder and Land Zone in order to specify my own Type 48 or 49... :-( Any suggestions?

unless you comp is old it should be auto detecting hdd or you have hardware problems.
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=48&p_created=964539083&p_sid=qrnwAxZh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD04NDcmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&p_topview=1
my have to run the PowerMax test program.

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