The bios is not allowing me to change the internal hard disk from disabled to enabled. Any ideas?

You need to be more specific. There are different BIOS's, and if you want help, you need to tell us what hardware you are using so that hopefully someone here will have experience with it and be able to help you. Also, what exactly are you trying to change ?are you talking about enabling a function like Boot up on hard drive or are you talking about actually enabling the drive itself.

i am trying to enable the hard drive on a Dell Latitude LM P-133ST, keyboard bios rev A03. The initial startup screen looks as follows: MagicGraph NM2070 40K SVGA BIOS Version 1.23 Build 0000 VESA VBE/1.2+ BIOS Extensions Enabled ============================================= Phoenix NoteBios 4.0 (copyright 1985-1995). Latitude LM P-133ST Rev A11 Keyboard BIOS Rev A03 CPU = Pentium 133 MHZ 0000640K System RAM Passed 0039936K Extended RAM Passed 0256K Cache SRAM Passed System BIOS shadowed Video BIOS shadowed Press (F2> to enter Setup When I enter Setup, the Internal Hard Drive is set to disabled. The cursor will not position itself at this option to allow me to change it. This laptop has interchangeable diskette and cd-rom drives that plug into an expansion slot, currently I have the diskette reader installed and can boot the system to a dos prompt. I want to enable the hard drive so that I can boot from a DOS floppy, initialize the hard drive and then install WIN98. I need to be able to boot the computer off the c: drive in order to access the cd-rom drive for the windows installation. I hope this provides more specific information.

Hi you might just be in the wrong page in bios to set it, likely you are in the infomation page.

Yeah, it could be that you are on an info page, or it could be that security settings will not allow you to change it without logging in with a password.