[KLUG Members] testing SATA drive

[Eric Beversluis]

Is this an XP box?
As I recall, when XP installs, there's a prompt for special steps to
install RAID and SATA drivers. So maybe the OS rather than the BIOS
recognizes SATA? If so, part or all of XP might need to be reinstalled?
(Guessing)

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:45 -0500, bill 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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