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Hard Drive not detected
Name: Dylan Thompson Date: November 1, 2003 at 01:01:33 Pacific OS: none CPU/Ram: Pentium 4, 512 ddr
Comment:
I put together a computer for my mom. It is unable to detect any of the 3 hard disk drives i have tested. The jumper is correct and i am almost positive that i connected it properly. It starts to scanning IDE drives and then says "No hard drive attached to fast trak controller, the BIOS is not installed." It can detect the CD ROM as secondary master and the A drive works. I took the RAM out and put it back in. i used multiple ribbon cables. I looked up my hard drives specs in hopes to manually enter the values into the BIOS since autodetect didnt work. Unfortunately i didnt even find any place i could define those values. Im out of ideas. There is nothing on my Hard drive. My Hard drive is a "40 GB AT Maxtor D740X-6L." My mother board is an ASUS P4C800. Please help.
Name: bujji Date: November 1, 2003 at 03:40:12 Pacific
Reply:
you must partition the hard drive before it will be recognized. bujji
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Response Number 2
Name: Ken Date: November 1, 2003 at 04:46:10 Pacific
Reply:
How do you have this drive connected? Fast track controller is listed under SCSI and Raid controllers. So, unless you have the drive connected to that, you will get that message each time you boot.
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Response Number 3
Name: Zero Cool Date: November 1, 2003 at 05:45:27 Pacific
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Go into the BIOS and disable raid, then your HDD should work
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Response Number 4
Name: Dylan Thompson Date: November 1, 2003 at 13:26:35 Pacific
Reply:
I changed Operating Mode from RAID to IDE. Now it will say Detecting...... No device is found!
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