When you say that you disassembled the hard disk, I hope that you don't mean
that you opened the hard drive case itself. Doing so will probably render
the hard drive unusable since dust from the room air will have entered what
should be a sealed, dust free environment. If you DID NOT disassemble the
hard drive, then you should set the BIOS to auto detect and then proceed
with trying to boot it.

Let us know what you actually did and if the BIOS is recognizing the hard
drive for what it actually is. There should be a momentary display during
boot where you are shown what type of hard drive the BIOS detected.


Peter

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My evesham recently started making a noise, I stupidly assumed it was the
hard drive which I proceeded to disassemble. I put it all back together and
forgot to plug in the power cable <http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/#> , restarted
the computer <http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/#>  it failed to detect HDD
obviously so I started fiddling with the Bios, cant remember what I'd
changed had a couple of Stellas and went to bed. Having had a second look I
discovered the disconnected power cable, plugged it in and rebooted. 1st I
got HDD instant recovery system 6 options all gobbledygook to me, I tried
them all and nothing happened. after this it goes in windows failed to start
correctly with a number of options including safe mode or last known
configuration that worked, or recommended start windows normally. When i try
this option I get anotther screen saying checking files on C with option to
wait or press any key I've tried both options and the PC
<http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/#>  just hangs and refuses to continue.

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