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by vidmaa

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as i turn on PC i get blue window stating that my hard disk drive is not found and i should check/connect etc.

I took 1-1.5 year old PC to reinstall windows. as the Windows CD didn't worked from this PC i installed in to disk from other, meanwhile i cleaned dust from PC (o lot), and then i put everything back i got this problem. i checked from BIOS drive is not visible, tried to restart BIOS but that didn't made change, what to do next?

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by computercookie

motherboard, if not it is look for a lot of drivers, and won't find them.

Why wouldn't the windows disk work on this computer?

by vidmaa

the other computer wasn't identical, but that not a problem as i doing from time to time you need just to install correct drivers then the hard disk is placed back, the problem is that the hard disk is not detected and not visible from BIOS and just can't do anything whit this disk.
windows disk didn't work in the firs place for unknown reason (for me) - i had blue screen noting the boot disk failure and on the bottom line many little squares and code..

by seanferd

You need to install Windows in the PC that will be running it. The drivers will not be the same, and you can't fix that in a different PC.

As to drive recognition, will the original PC (or another) still recognize the drive? Will the PC with the problem recognize any drive that is attached?

If the drive is not recognized by BIOS in any PC, then it is dead.

by vidmaa

but from this PC it doesn't recognizes any HDD as i have find out i have problem with sata drivers, tried to download several but didn't work...

by seanferd

If the BIOS is recognizing any drives. With or without any drive in the PC, can you access the BIOS setup screen when the computer starts? Look at the bottom of the screen at boot time. It should say what key to press to enter BIOS setup.

You may have to manually enter drive specs into the BIOS if the PC is fairly old. There may be a setting that turns off auto-detect for drives.

Tell us about the exact BIOS type, version, and revision. Tell us exactly what the computer model is.

by vidmaa

motherboard is MSI ms7032 ver:1 k8t neo-V
in BIOS i found v02.58 MPS revision i found 1.4 but there is the option to change to 1.1
auto detect is enabled
disk drive is exelstore jupiter 160GB model j8160s

by vidmaa

i solved the problem by connecting another hard drive (Maxtor) with IDE connection - then both drives become visible and then installed in the first drive everything seems to work fine. but have no idea why this did helped.
thanks for help anyway

by seanferd

Glad to see you solved this.

Was the drive jumpered as a slave while you were trying to use it as a master?

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