Go into set up and make sure the primary drive is set to auto.  Might be 
that the CMOS battery is marginal and the CMOS settings have changed. 
Usually the symptom of a failing CMOS battery is that you have to reset the 
date and time after the computers has been unpowered for some time.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "g.Computer9f" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive invisible


My son has a several-years-old PC (built for him in LianLi Case) that has 
never been connected to the internet - he used it only for flight 
simulators.  It was running Win98 and one day just quit.  He says it was 
used VERY little.

I was going to see if I could get windows XP on it for him (he is visiting 
today and tomorrow and brought this PC).  The installation begins, but then 
says it cannot find any hard drive.  There is a hard drive (WD) with very 
little use and all the cables are secure.  I noticed when the bootup began 
it said there was no master or slave hdd.  I thought maybe the BIOS battery 
had died, but if it was the BIOS, surely the CD Reader would not have read 
the Windows XP CD.

I'm at a loss.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
AnnaSummers


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