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Name: John Garner
Date: September 19, 2005 at 12:21:44 Pacific
Subject: No Fixed Disks, old HDs aren't de
OS: none
CPU/Ram: P4 3.2 800 1m / 2x 512 DD

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Hey there! I've built myself a new computer w/ the following components:
- P4 3.2ghz, 800fsb, 1M L2 Cache
- MSI 915P Combo-F Motherboard
- 2x Premium DDR2 512mb, 533fsb
- my old hard drives:
. 60gb Maxtor
. 160gb Western Digital
. 20gb Maxtor (test hard drive)
(the rest is irrelevant to the problem - probably)
When I boot the computer w/ boot disk to format a drive, fdisk tells me i have "no fixed disks present". I've tried with each of my hard drives one by one, only to get that message each time.
I am wondering if the problem doesn't have something to do with the fact that this is a IDE/SATA board. Do I need a SATA HD as a main HD? I think not, but I have no leads to follow. I certainly don't think that all the HDs are broken, they work well in their old PCs.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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Response Number 1

Name: lefty2053
Date: September 19, 2005 at 12:29:56 Pacific

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What do you have the BIOS set for HD's? IDE or SATA? Or is there a AUTO detect function? Are you sure it is set on the IDE0 channel as Master?
<===Lefty===
AMD 64 3200+
200 GB WD
Geforce 5500FX 256 MB
512 MB Ram Needs more.
Windows XP

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Response Number 2

Name: John Garner
Date: September 19, 2005 at 12:53:16 Pacific

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Thanks for the reply! I played around with some bios settings and it works now. Don't really know what happened, it's as if the problem has just vanished! I spent an hour trying to figure it out, then pouf!
Might have had something to do with the boot sequence.
Sorry for the weird conclusion to this post.
Thanks again for the leads Lefty, you may not have said much, but I have learned from your post.

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Response Number 3

Name: lefty2053
Date: September 19, 2005 at 15:22:08 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

If confused, reboot.
<===Lefty===
AMD 64 3200+
200 GB WD
Geforce 5500FX 256 MB
512 MB Ram Needs more.
Windows XP

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