Error reading Fixed Dissk

[jcfalls]

I have been fighting this pc for 3 days now. I have buit a new pc. ECS
L4VXA2 mobo. I have 1gb of ram. When the system boots up the bios
detects the hdd, however when I go to the bios setup, which is set to
auto detect, before I pushed the button the drive shoes up, sectors
and the works. When I push the button to auto detect all fields go
blank, but in the boot process, if I let it go through auto process
it detects the hdd. If I boot to A: drive I get the error reading
fixed disk message when I try fdisk or format. the disk is a Western
digital and I downloaded the disk tools from their site and from the
CD it will find and run test. I took to 00 got it ready to partition
and A: will not see it. I have tried 3 different drives, some with OS
on them already, checked and changed pins, changed cables, erased
bios, took all but HDD off. Everything else works, but seeing the HDD
at the end of boot up. Anyone have any Ideas?

 

[Michael Hawes]

I have been fighting this pc for 3 days now. I have buit a new pc. ECS
L4VXA2 mobo. I have 1gb of ram. When the system boots up the bios
detects the hdd, however when I go to the bios setup, which is set to
auto detect, before I pushed the button the drive shoes up, sectors
and the works. When I push the button to auto detect all fields go
blank, but in the boot process, if I let it go through auto process
it detects the hdd. If I boot to A: drive I get the error reading
fixed disk message when I try fdisk or format. the disk is a Western
digital and I downloaded the disk tools from their site and from the
CD it will find and run test. I took to 00 got it ready to partition
and A: will not see it. I have tried 3 different drives, some with OS
on them already, checked and changed pins, changed cables, erased
bios, took all but HDD off. Everything else works, but seeing the HDD
at the end of boot up. Anyone have any Ideas?

What size drive? SATA or PATA? If SATA, have you tried another data
cable? If PATA, have you tried another data cable?
Mike.

 

[jcfalls]

Mike I haved tried several size drives from 20GB to 80GB. Some already
had the OS on them. Win98 on one and WinXP on one. One was a 40GB new
unformated. Each of these drives worked fine in other computers. The
ones with OSs on them booted up other computers just fine. The
Motherboard is a year or so old but was new in the box when I got it.
When I started it with WinXP floppies it loaded all six disk (I guess
in the ram drive). When I put the CD in to start the CD load. It
could not find the Disk. I am lost. I guess the Motherboard has a
flaw in it somewhere. I remember having this problem a few years ago
and can't remember what I did to fix it. I have been out of hardware
for a few years now.

 

[Michael Hawes]

Mike I haved tried several size drives from 20GB to 80GB. Some already
had the OS on them. Win98 on one and WinXP on one. One was a 40GB new
unformated. Each of these drives worked fine in other computers. The
ones with OSs on them booted up other computers just fine. The
Motherboard is a year or so old but was new in the box when I got it.
When I started it with WinXP floppies it loaded all six disk (I guess
in the ram drive). When I put the CD in to start the CD load. It
could not find the Disk. I am lost. I guess the Motherboard has a
flaw in it somewhere. I remember having this problem a few years ago
and can't remember what I did to fix it. I have been out of hardware
for a few years now.

Best workaround is to buy a PCI IDE card, disable the onboard IDE and
use the card instead.
Mike.

 

[jcfalls]

I had not thought of that. That's the best idea I've heard yet. Thanks
Jim