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why do my pc not find harddrive

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by man_with_love27610

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do don;t my pc find my harddrive

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by alpha-male

Assuming you mean an IDE drive, there are several possibilities...in order of liklihood:

1 - the HD is not recognized in the BIOS (try to autodetect it)
2 - the cables are not secured or attached correctly
3 - the HD is not jumpered correctly4 - the cable is defective
5 - the HD is defective

by scheel_chris

Go into BIOS,check to see if there is anything on the IDE Primary Master. If there is nothing there, go to boot sequence and on the second boot device, make sure it says HDD-0. Your BIOS may be different. Go back to the IDE Primary Master and try toautodetect it. If that does not work, make sure your hard drive jumper is set as master. Also check that the cable is in the primary not secondary IDE on the motherboard. They are right next to one another. The secondary is for CD-ROM. Hope this will be helpful.

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