Hi Chipo,

My first thought is of a loose or bad power/data cable connection. Try 
disconnecting both the power and data cables at the motherboard and the 
drive ends. Then reconnect them, insuring you have a good solid connection. 
Do this for all drives one cable at a time and, at the same time, inspect 
each one for frayed or loose wires.

If this isn't the problem, get back to us with more information on the 
Valuestar (model number, age, etc.) and any pertinent information on 
previous signs of similar (drive) problems.

Sven Swanson, Sr.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chipo chika" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 9:40 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] PC cant find drives


A friend brought over a small pc NEC valuestar that it could not not
find the operating system win ME. I booted it and it reported missing
operating system. I then re-booted with win98 boot disk and in the
process the machine could not find any drive including the cd-rom. The
cd-rom and the hard drive are connectedd to the mainbord IDE. Im told
the pc hard earlier a power supply problem and it was fixed. Could it be
the IDE controller is gone? The pc has no pci expansion slots.

  chipo chika
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