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by man_with_love27610

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when i run fdisk why do it say that no drive installed

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by gary mcp

OK, you could have a few different problems here.
I'm assuming your drive is IDE and not SCSI?

1) Hard drive is physically damaged. If the drive is physically damaged it may not be spinning, spinning correctly or reading correctly. When you power up the pc, can you hear it spinning? Are there any "clunking" or grinding noises?
2) the hard drive is incorrectly installed. Check both power and data cables. Make sure pin one on the data ribbon is nearest the power. This is the coloured wire onthe ribbon. (many IDE cables nowadays are "keyed" so they only fit one way). Ensure data ribbon is fitted correctly on the motherboard (ie. in the right connector, the right way around). Also check the jumpers on the drive itself. Is it set to Primary/Secondary Master/Slave?
3) Your drive is incorrectly configured. Check in the BIOS to ensure IDE detection is set to Atuomatic.

Hope this helps,
Gary

by pinoy_teknik

The first task you need to do is the hard drive configuration. BIOS settings make sure it is detected, if not check the cable, the jumper and some other option that you hard drive have. IF the BIOS can't detect at all, try to swap the drive to otherunit may be it is unuseable.

Now, if the BIOS recognized that drive, run fdisk.

Pinoy_Teknik

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