BIOS Setting

A place I go for Bios cracks is www.sysopt.com, of course you'll need to know what kind of bios you're using.

Of coarse you can always unplug the system and remove the battery from the system for a few seconds. That should clear it out.

Some batteries are soldiered in, so you may want to place a call to dell and ask them if there's a jumper or a KB sequence (like holding down insert on boot up) that'll clear that.

Mark

Donot unplug the battery,there is a jumper near the battery that you can use to clear the password,kjust take the jumper off and then re-enter control panel.

open the case and find on the motherboard
a jumper called "clear cmos" if its open you
must to short it. if there are not jumpers
take off the battery for 3 hours and restore it. the password must be deleted.
about the hard disk you would need a disk manager

Once you get the Bios cleared, which you should refer to the motherboard manufacture to make sure you do it correctly. You should check your jumper setting on the drives to make sure they are set correctly. You will not see it in the BIOS setting ifthey are wrong and also make sure your BIOS can support the larger drive. If it does not you will need some type of software to make it work like "easy drive".

YOU SHOULD A JUMPER SOMEWHERE ARROUND THE BATTERY CALL "CLEAR CMOS" SET THE JUMPER TO "CLEAR" THEN TURN ON THE POWER AND TURN OFF, AFTER THAT SET THE JUMPER BACK TO NORMAL AND TURN ON THE POWER, YOU SHOULD HAVE NOT PROBLEM GET IN TO CMOS NOW.

One possible answer to your original question might be in the installation of the second hdd. There are handbag jumpers on the rear of the ide hard drives that determine Master (drive 1 in a two drive cnfig), Slave (drive 2 in a two drive cnfig), cable select. If it is a stand alone jumper as cable select. There should be a template on non-component side of drive. The bios should be Auto sensing. If jumpered properly the bios should see both drives after post. Hope this helps.

Bo

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