[CTS] Re: Speaking of Hard Drives
- From: cuffy10@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: "CTS" <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:14:40 -0800
Have you tried Chkdsk ? checked for virus ?
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:56:32 -0800, "Charles R. Buchanan"
<daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I have a Dell computer OptiPlex GX110 which I thought I had sold to
> someone but for some reason it was too expensive for him. <shrug> Anyway,
> I'm kinda glad to have it back, this baby is QUIET! I wish I could put
> my present setup inside of it.
>
> Anyway before I sold it, I replaced the hard drive in it with a bigger
> hard drive. When you boot it up, it says it can't find the primary hard
> drive. Press F1 to continue or F2 to enter setup. Well, you press F1 and
> it boots up perfectly. So I'm thinking that they must have hard
> programmed the other hard drive into the motherboard/bios somehow. Which
> is questionable because the BIOS recognizes the drives, and ID's it as
> well. If the BIOS see's the drive, why would it (hd) not show up
> during/after the POST?
>
> Any Ideas?
>
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