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Val
| | Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 10:50 am: | |
Please help. Bios won't detect hard drive. Older 486 trying to get working for the kids. Have tried 2 other hard drives with same results. Have switched cables. What am I doing wrong. Please help |
Brent Hughes (Brenthughes)
| | Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2001 - 12:49 pm: | |
Are the drives larger that 540Mb? Typical size for an older 486 , so you may need software to force the bios into larger drive access. Check the Quantum Fireball drive sites for thier bios patch. If no luck e-mail me at
brent-hughes@home.com , I think I still have it. Otherwise check the bios settings to see if LBA mode can be toggled on. This would also clear the process. Checking cables and master/slave jumpers on the drives for correct positioning is all I can suggest.
Brent |
Shawn K
| | Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2001 - 6:45 pm: | |
Have you fdisked it yet? It won't detect it, unless there's a partition on the hard drive. Get a startup disk, then start the computer with the startup disk in. At the a: prompt type fdisk, then create a partition. Reboot, and it'll show the hard drive. Make sure you format it after you reboot. Just leave the floppy in and at the a: prompt type format c: and let it do it's thing. |
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