Re: After XP (HE) upgrade, BIOS won't recognize 2nd HD

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:51:58 -0800

Bruce,

Thanks for the feedback. Here is some info for you:

Upgrade was in fact a new install and it did work
correctly.

Disk problem was not a hardware or BIOS issue. I removed
the interface card and connected the disk to the IDE
controller and it worked. XP reportedly runs its own BIOS
so interface card is no longer required. Vendor insists
it does and that is what threw me off.

-j
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings --
>
> Leaving aside the fact that it's not technically
possible to
>upgrade from Win2K to WinXP Home, if the BIOS doesn't
recognize the
>hard drive, you've a hardware issue of some sort.
Changing the OS
>cannot affect the BIOS, and if the PC's BIOS cannot
recognize the
>drive, then the OS most certainly won't.
>
>Bruce Chambers
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>"Landtuna" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>news:cd7d01c40a16$146b6f80$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Upgraded OS from W2000PRO to XP Home Edition. Install
>> went fine but upon reboot BIOS will not show 2nd HD nor
>> does it show up in XP. 2nd drive is Maxtor 6Y120P0
>> (120GB) and was running fine under W2000. It is NTFS
and
>> was not touched during upgrade. Disk has data so don't
>> want to run Maxtor MAXBlast program which will reformat
>> drive. Have tried unplug/replug, restart etc. with no
>> results. PowerMax diagnostic shows no errors on drive.
>> System is older 386 and has bus interface card because
>> BIOS can't see whole drive. Have looked through Maxtor
>> and M/S support databases but can't find this problem
>> anywhere. Thanks for any help.
>
>
>.
>

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