I tried changing the "hard disk pre-delay" to 3 seconds, 6 sec. etc. all
the way up to 30 seconds, no change, same old message. That doesn't seem to
be the problem.
Thanks anyway, Dianne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Mayer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] WIN Me invalid system disk
> The "hard disk pre-delay-disabled" intrigued me and, based on some
> research,
> it appears that this setting should only be "disabled" if there is no hard
> drive present. The normal setting is apparently supposed to be some time
> increment (10 seconds default). It is the time allotted for the hard
> drives
> to be "found". Setting it to "disabled" probably bypasses the search for
> the
> hard drives.
>
> Sorry I can't be sure of this information as I am not personally familiar
> with this setting.
>
> Tom Mayer
>
>
>
> Hi Hugh, PHogan, Scott and John,
> You guys are great. OK. Let me tell you what I have tried.
> 1. I checked all the cables and made sure there were good connections
> (floppy, cd, and hd). All seemed ok there. I went to the BIOS and under
> IDE CONFIGURATION: it said: IDE Controller-Both, Hard Disk
> Pre-Delay-Disabled, Primary IDE Master:Samsung SV4084H, Primary IDE Slave:
> Samsung CD-R/RW Drive, Secondary IDE Master: SS06-Samsung DVD Under POWER
> it said Hard Drive Enabled. So I am assuming that all this means it is
> recognizing the Hard Drive. I attempted to boot some other disk (a
> windows
> 98 boot disk), no go, as well as re-tried the Windows Me Boot disk, no go.
>
> I am going to hate to tell these folks that they have lost everything on
> the
> HD, is that what you think it is? I have a recovery CD-Rom as well, I
> just
> cant get it to recognize it, I changed the BIOS to read the CD first, but
> no
> go there either. Yes, I changed them back.
> Thanks for all the help, if you can think of anything else I can try, let
> me
> know.
> Dianne
>
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