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Hard drive: auto detect

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by sherryrandhawa

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The BIOS does not detect the Pri Master Hard drive in AUTO detect mode nad does not allow to manually specify the parameters? Any other Hard drive is detected. What could be the remedy to recover data from the HDD that is not detected?

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by arichart

Chances are, you have tried this but the first question that pops to mind is the jumper settings and also if you tried putting it into another machine?

by pchlp

If the Harddrive is set for Cable select then make sure the Hdd is on the last plug of the cable.

by hereinoz

Perhaps you are attempting to put a large hard drive on an old motherboard with an 8Gb HDD limit. Also some PIII ASUS boards had ( I think ) a 32Gb Limit on hard drives.

Could this be the reason?

Alan

by jardinier

When a HDD does not auto-detect, it is usually stuffed. Quite often when a HDD does auto-detect, is is stuffed anyhow, which you will soon find out if you try and format it or read from it.
As a last resort, try it in another computer.

As for data recovery, you may have to seek a specialist to do this. However this is quite expensive and not worth the bother unless the data is crucially important.

For future reference, ALWAYS back-up data onto a floppy, second hard drive, or ZIP drive [or CD burner if that is within the specifications of your computer]

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