Re: Stupid question: How do you use BIOS to detect a drive?

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Right click on My Computer and select MANAGE, the
Storage/disk management and see if it detected by XP and it
has a drive letter assigned.



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James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

<dornachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1154880325.674835.202990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|I think my internal hard drive (not the main one, one that
i added
| later for stuff) is damaged. It was working fine
(although getting
| slower and slower), then all of a sudden yesterday, it
became
| inaccessible. I don't know what to do.
| I searched on the internet and most people suggest using
BIOS to detect
| it, but i don't know how to do it.
|
| Also, i have a bt program running that saves onto E drive
(damaged
| drive), and i am unable to open the program because it's
trying to
| access E. I removed the program and reinstall it and the
queues are
| still there!!! What should I do?
|
| Thanks!
|


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