What usually needs to be done under bios when the hard drive isn't bein detected correctly?
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If it isn't automatically detecting it, you'll likely need to manually enter the information.  There should be an option in the bios to manually enter it - you'll likely need to consult your HD documentation to get the drive's geometry so you can input it.
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Check your jumper settings on your drive, go to your Bios setup and make sure the drive is there, make your cd rom first boot device, then hard drive second boot device
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If you just installed it, then you have to go thru BIOS to enable it. If you had it in there and it quit, was it because you were inside working on something???....you may have loosened the cable to either the harddrive or motherboard. Is the power supply to the harddrive plugged in??\nIs the D drive a slave drive and is the jumper pin on the back of it set to Slave? Could be lots of things, you have to think about all the things that could have happened to it.
582009
As long as the laptop is new, the HDD quite new and the BIOS is setup right (Boot External HDD First).
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If you have tested multiple hard drives on this system and believe that the onboard sata controller is faulty, then I would recommend contacting the company you purchased the motherboard from for support/service.  (not Intel)\n\nHave you verified that this motherboard is running the latest version of BIOS?\n\nHave you verified that the SATA controller is enabled in the BIOS?\n\nGive the company that you bought the motherboard from a call, they'll be able to help you if your still under warranty.\n\nGood luck
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Was this a working system or a new system? The first thing I would check is the plugs in the motherboard to see that they are actually plugged in. Check the bios again and make sure the IDE ports are enabled. If you have 2 drives, try unplugging one and see if it reads one drive. Try setting up one drive on the cable that goes to the hard drive. Cables can go bad too.
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Press del. when the motherboard shows up. then it will let u go into the BIOS.  in some comps its F8 or F9-10
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There is a RAID controller which need to be enabled first (at the BIOS level), before Windows is able to detect it.\n\nJust goto the BIOS during startup and find the RAID options under Advanced Chipset (or other place, depending on BIOS)
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I think you need to try to upgrade the BIOS. and make the HDD. Master
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On the motherboard there should be a jumper to reset the bios, short it and turn on the computer.  Or you can remove the motherboard's battery for a couple hours to clear the bios.
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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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its possible that your bios battery is dead and forgot what drive is in your computer, enter bios setup and have it autodetect hard drives.\nif the battery is dead the clock time will be wrong also, and all other bios settings.\nif you reset the clock and hard drive you will be able to boot one time.\nif this is the problem you need to replace the battery, it may cost you $2.\n\n\ngood luck\nTV
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go into the bios setup and disable boot from USB devices....
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MORE INFO NEEDED\n\nFirst check if the jumpers are set correctly, and the harddrive is connected correctly. If it still won't pick up in the bios you are in trouble. If it's a new harddrive and you have an old pc try limiting the saize to 32GB using the jumper setting listed on the drive.\n\nIf the drive always worked and stopped being detected one day it could be problem with the harddrive or your IDE controller. it would more likely be the drive though. If you can borrow an external USB 2 drive enclosure. Install the drive into it (set jumper to master) and see if windows picks it up. If you can see the drive in windows then there could be something wrong with your motherboard, there could be something wrong with the drives board or other, but seem as though YOU GAVE SUCH LITTLE INFORMATION, we can say it could be one of a hundred things.
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Restart the system, then try to go into the BIOS setup menu. Make sure it shows that the proper amount of RAM is attached, as well as the hard drives. Exit BIOS, and press the TAB key (I believe) to watch the motherboard account for each attached device. If it shows a missing device, or the wrong amount of RAM, then that device may need to be replaced.
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I would check the HD in another system and the IDE or SATA wire.\n\nYou can buy another control card that plugs into a PCI slot, it might even be faster.
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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.