Hi Diane,

Sounds like you did OK. I just went into mine and I don't see any numbers
until I tab down to IDE Primary Master where it says auto and hit enter.
Then I get Capacity, Cylinders=2434, Head=255, Precomp=0, Landing
Zone=38791, Sector=63. You must have numbers there. After you hit AUTO did
the numbers appear? If they did hit F10 & boot. I suspect they did not.
BIOSes vary in how results are obtained and presented. In mine I have a box
on the right that explains each entry, some are on the bottom. Feel free to
experiment to see what is happening but put things back the way they were
(except for the hard drive before you save. So get numbers to appear and
then save. You can try a manual entry if you can see the numbers on the hard
drive. Good Luck.

Les Barnes


----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Duncan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] No hard disk on cd boot Setup


> At 08:02 PM 2/25/04 -0500, Les wrote:
> >Your HD is just not being detected. Go into your BIOS to the first screen
> >and note the numbers (sectors, # of sectors,etc) for drive 0. They will
> >probably be all zero. If your BIOS has an automatic detect, select that
> >and
> >it will find the HD. If not you will have to put the numbers in manually.
> >They are listed on the hard drive itself.
>
> Well, in the Main screen there's something that said something about
> Primary
> and Secondary Slaves and Masters IDE choices and other alien species,
> but I did see the keyword "sectors", so I chose Auto then F10 to save
> changes
> and exit.  I rebooted without F2 into the BIOS setup and I now get a black
> monitor with the words Operating System not found.
>
> Did I do what you said?  Do I have a working hard drive?
>
> Thanks for helping  :)
> cheers,
> Diane



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