Okay, to make a long story short, I wanted to move a few certain files from my hard drive to my external hard drive without having to reinstall XP (since it wasn't installed, and my hard drive letters were messed up, and I wanted to just start afresh), so I installed UBCD, booted from the CD, and went through some of the tools (hard drive partitioning tools), but didn't come up with anything successful. I don't know what I did (but I must have done something), because now my laptop computer can't boot up from anything but the floppy hard drive. In the BIOS, it is showing only the floppy drive (a few times) under the boot options - the CD-ROM drive and the hard drive has disappeared, and I have no clue what to do. My laptop is essentially dead. Please help me out. Thank you - I appreciate any help. :) But, ASAP if possible. Andrew

Try setting the BIOS values to defaults, saving and exiting?

Is there a way to detect the hard drive in bios? Most times you can set it to auto and save. It is normally under the first choices like basic or first page. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

i dont know if this has been checked or not but did you look at the boot order? and the drive letters are determined by windows not the bios unless im confused to what you were trying to do now it sounds like you may need to redetect the hdd in bios to put it back in the boot order??