[KLUG Members] testing SATA drive

[mag00]

Sounds like the MBR may be gone!
Master Boot Record...

To restore your MBR, boot a DOS rescue 
floppy and type FDISK /MBR

You did have the BIOS auto-detect the drives?
The BIOS battery may be dead...
It could be one of a hundred and two other things...
If none of that works and you have no other place
to test the drive... I'd be willing to accept the dead
PC as a donation to my favorite charity.

At 03:45 PM 1/3/06 -0500, you wrote:
>My neighbor brought over a dead computer recently.  Apparently they had
>lots of hacking problems, removed them all (so they say) and then,
>--surprise! -- the computer no longer would boot.
>
>A quick look shows the BIOS no longer recognizes the HD.  The drive is
>connected o.k. and spins up.  I couldn't find any place to put in the HD
>parameters manually.
>
>The drive is Serial ATA and I don't have any other boxes that have that
>interface to test whether it is the drive or the computer.  Any ideas?
>
>kind regards,
>
>bill
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