When a HDD is not recognised by BIOS
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:51 pm
A friends HDD may have a problem with MBR. However, after a computer freeze his PC would not boot up. After that, although BIOS is set to AUTO, His PC is not even recognizing the HDD now. (And curiously the BIOS seems so slow in acting). Anyway, on my PC, his HDD is recognised by WINDOWS when I'm not using it as the active /bootable drive. When trying to boot from it (not letting it go far for obvious reasons) it seems my BIOS on my PC probably does not recognise the HDD, because it will not even begin to boot. I cannot access the HDD using Partition Magic from the CD.
So, it looks like whenever one tries to boot from the HDD, it is not recognised. Otherwise WINDOWS will recognise it.
I wonder if MBR was partly bad, would that stop BIOS recognising a HDD at bootup? Of course, I muse about WINDOWS recognising the HDD and wonder why the difference. Any explanations? Thanks. Rich
So, it looks like whenever one tries to boot from the HDD, it is not recognised. Otherwise WINDOWS will recognise it.
I wonder if MBR was partly bad, would that stop BIOS recognising a HDD at bootup? Of course, I muse about WINDOWS recognising the HDD and wonder why the difference. Any explanations? Thanks. Rich