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Hard Drive not found after FDISK
Name: Techieaunt Date: September 19, 2004 at 08:11:50 Pacific OS: Windows 95 CPU/Ram: Pentium II MMX/640 K
Comment:
Hard drive not recognized after FDISK. Rebooted from floppy to check settings in BIOS. Setting for hard drive is AUTO, but shows "Primary IDE Master Not Installed. Ran a diagnostic utility for proper installation and received a message that BIOS extension support test failed and partition information was absent. Is there anything I can do to get this machine up and running or is it toast?
Name: safeTsurfa Date: September 19, 2004 at 08:58:07 Pacific
Reply:
After you did FDisk, did you remember to set the primary partition?
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Response Number 2
Name: trvlr Date: September 19, 2004 at 09:27:34 Pacific
Reply:
Using:
BIOS extension support test failed
as the string/search-term in a google search will bring up a range of hits discussing the problem. One of them (IBM) lists three possible resolutions; flash the bios...; an adapter card may be faulty; the actual system board may have a problem.
Rather than duplicate here many of the hits I browsed, perhaps you can/will do your own trawl with the above string?
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: September 19, 2004 at 11:58:58 Pacific
Reply:
How large is the hard drive? Also make sure the IDE controllers are enabled in cmos.
Sometimes RAM can cause bios extension errors. How much do you have and did you recently add or change it?
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Response Number 4
Name: koulrajesh Date: September 21, 2004 at 21:15:38 Pacific
Reply:
I don't have Audio driver intel(r)82801 BA/BAM AC97 for win 98 OS. Can you please send the driver on above email.
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: September 21, 2004 at 22:26:53 Pacific
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