Why drives arent being detected?

bios not detecting drives

This question was answered on February 17, 2004. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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If your computer cannot detect your hard drive or cd-rom drive the possibilities are:

bad cable/not seated correctly, bad ide port on the motherboard, dead hard drive/bad port

power connector is bad/poorly connected Also you want to check the drives on another computer to see if they work properly.

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Posted by Student of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on February 17, 2004

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