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Old 02-06-2007, 04:23 PM
Jack Edmunds
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Hard Drives/CD-ROM not recognized

Machine has been running fine. Booted up today and it does not recognize
anything except the A: drive. Can't boot from CD-ROM but I can from the A:
drive and can't change to anything but the C: and it says nothing when I try
to access it. Where should I look first?

Thanks

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Re: Hard Drives/CD-ROM not recognized

In the BIOS setup.

Jack Edmunds wrote:
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> Machine has been running fine. Booted up today and it does not recognize
> anything except the A: drive. Can't boot from CD-ROM but I can from the A:
> drive and can't change to anything but the C: and it says nothing when I try
> to access it. Where should I look first?
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> Thanks
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Re: Hard Drives/CD-ROM not recognized

For what?

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> In the BIOS setup.
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> Jack Edmunds wrote:
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> > Machine has been running fine. Booted up today and it does not

recognize
> > anything except the A: drive. Can't boot from CD-ROM but I can from the

A:
> > drive and can't change to anything but the C: and it says nothing when I

try
> > to access it. Where should I look first?
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Old 02-06-2007, 04:23 PM
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Re: Hard Drives/CD-ROM not recognized

Without knowing what OS you are running or what specs. your machine
has we can only give you a general answer.


You say that after booting from floppy you can change to C:\ but you
see nothing, that is because you are only at the DOS prompt. type
"DIR" (without quotation marks) you should now see a whole lot of
files.

1. If this is the case then restart your computer and go into your
BIOS. Once in your BIOS check to see if the settings for Hard Drive
detection is set to "Auto Detect", save your settings and restart your
computer.

2. If this is not the the case then your Hard Drive has failed and
time to get a new one.
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