BIOS doesnot detect my hard disk?
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it is problem of data cable only as if it wud be a prob in hard disk or motherboard that hard disk ll never be detected if u reconnect also... so try with a data cable borrowed frm ur frnd and if it works conveniently u can get a new data cable...
149881
No Not At All Even If Hard Disk Is Not\nInstalled There The MotherBoard Will Keep Movin.
945527
check at the manufacture's site or the mother board's site remember don't update bios unless you're having a problem if everything is working ok leave it alone!
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Your BIOS must support booting from USB devices.  On system startup you need to get into your BIOS (usually F2 - check manufacturer's specification), and find where you can specify the boot order.  Select a low-numbered boot order item, and set it to USB-HDD (if availble, otherwise another USB option).  This may require several attempts until the right device option is found.\n\nSince most USB drives are ATAPI-compliant, your BIOS should detect it as if it were an external USB hard drive.\n\nJust make sure you specify a boot order BEFORE your internal hard drive (usually HDD, or IDE0), otherwise your system will always boot to the hard drive.\n\nAlso, you need to format the USB drive as a bootable drive.  If you can get the system to boot from a DOS, Windows or Linux floppy disk, you can try installing DOS, Windows 95/98, or Linux (Win2000, and WinXP require more than 256Mb for sytem files).  Your system will likely assign the USB drive as the C:&#92; drive (MAKE SURE THIS IS THE CASE BEFORE FORMATTING!!!).\n\nKeep in mind that most USB drives are slower than hard drives, so performance may not be up to par.  The newer "high-speed" drives are faster, but not comparable to a real hard drive.\n\nIf no options work, your Micro Valut may not be ATAPI-compliant, or it's USB-HDD firmware may not be compatible with your system.  I had this happen with a SanDisk Cruzer mini, but a PNY Attache worked.\n\nIf I may make one suggestion as well...make a bootable CD with your images instead.  CD's are much more rugged, and cannot be accidentally erased.  Duplicates are EXTREMELY cheaper (about 5 cents vs. $20) than the USB drive solution.  Many more BIOS' support booting from CD (for about 10 years now), so compatibility is usually not an issue.  All of the commercial CD-burning packages (including most of the LITE versions) support making bootable CD's.  The only trick is to make a bootable floppy that it can use to create the boot image on the CD.
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try this but don't mess around in the bios.\nturn off the pc.\nturn it on again, as it is setting up, press the DEL key several times, the pc should go into the bios, usually a blue screen with settings for lots of the pc's setup items.\ngo to the drives, use the arrow keys to navigate.\ncheck to see if it shows a rom drive. if not click on my pc there and if should locate it and show it, if it doesn't then reset the pc.\nonly way I'm afraid.
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Your BIOS is set to check for CD-ROM as its First Boot Device.\nthere may be a floppy , flash drive or a CD or DVD in the Drive. take it out.\n\nIf it doesn't help. Go to BIOS by entering F2 or dell button at startup. Set your primary or first boot device to be Hard Disk (the name of HD should appear)
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The drivers are for your motherboard.\n\nIf you have the Mobo disk, just insert and choose to replace the USB drivers.\n\nIf no disk, find out exactly which Mobo you have and d/l usb drivers from manufacturers web site.\n\nGood luck
1180470
I think it is problem in your BIOS settings. It is trying to detect a hardware that is not functioning. So try to correct the BIOS settings.
1167229
check your bios to see if the drive is being properly recognized. You may need to properly partition the hard drive, but that would be unusual if you are installing windows from this century.
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go to bios and check the memory (ram) and \n\nfloppy drive conection to you mother board...
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no, you have to go into the BIOS to enable\nDEL or what ever key gets you into the BIOS
883340
Do you see the drives in Bios? When your computer boots up press F2 and see if the drives are present there. If it shows up there I cant really imagine as to why your having the problems. Especially if you can boot to the operating system. I wouldn't say its the motherboard controller either for the same reason. Recheck your cables, usually the ide cables for the hard drives will be labeled HD 1 etc. There are usually two connections on an ide cable. Make sure you have the right one connected to the hard drive.
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Did you connect the data cable?\nDid you set the jumpers correctly?\nIs the DVD drive enabled in the system bios?
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I think you need to try to upgrade the BIOS. and make the HDD. Master
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Check your BIOS beware don’t change anything only if your are sure what you are doing just look if someone didn’t disabled this function. Otherwise try the file usb2fix www.download.com check also your drivers right click on your computer (but you know this)
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Go to ur BIOS and do it setting to automatic. Most probably it the BIOS's Setting that dosent show a CD - ROM
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Check the BIOS and make the peripherals manual detect and assign the correct device. It may be by default in auto mode. Cheers !!!!