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 | Megabytes Can 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.