Setup did not find any hard drive installed...

[JAD]

Congrats....long thread...glad you got it

 

[Mill]

Congrats....long thread...glad you got it

Thanks for all of your help and especially for your patience!!! And now
the old
drive is working. Like I said, I can always use another SATA drive - not a
big
deal.

I NEVER would have guessed that an old BIOS version would have done this.

Thanks again!!!

 

[John Doe]

I also said I found bad sectors on it.

Well, which is it?

The more specific help you need, the more concise/accurate information
you need to provide.

So it could be that the mbr had a bad sector that was not used when
I tested it as an aux storage device. That would mean that it might
not show up as a drive in the dell but would work fine (as long as I
didn't use a bad sector) for storage.

Go for it.

The fact that your drive isn't causing the error message should be
clear by now. Considering the fact you just bought a new drive and got
the same error message. And taking into consideration your previous
statement about the first drive that was producing the same error
message your new drive is producing, that the first drive "works so
well in my system".

Apparently the error message is being caused by something other than
the hard drive.

 

[John Doe]

I NEVER would have guessed that an old BIOS version would have done
this.

Updates are one of the first things you try, and of course you should
have removable media copies of any important files at all times.

Thanks again!!!

Yup, the obsessed troll JAD alluded/referred to that when he asked you
about the BIOS version.

 

[Mill]

Updates are one of the first things you try, and of course you should
have removable media copies of any important files at all times.

And so, you have seen a BIOS hide a drive that it has shown ever
since day one?? I have never seen this happen. But I am certainly happy
that it is fixed.

 

[JAD]

And so, you have seen a BIOS hide a drive that it has shown ever
since day one?? I have never seen this happen. But I am certainly happy
that it is fixed.

Ignore her, rarely does she ever have anything of value to say. This Group is like her
proverbial bridge, the biach merely lives under it.

 

[spodosaurus]

The drive that was there would not boot. I ran a test - showed bad
sectors, fixed the bad sectors, still would not boot. Ran Dell diagnostics
and it said code 7 (usually a bad drive). The drive did show in my
main computer and I could use it for storage. I figured maybe the mbr
was bad with bad sector. Bought a new drive, formatted it and then
tried to boot it in dell. Once again, in the OS install procedure, I get
the
message that the system
cannot find a hard drive even though it does show in the bios setup.

So all the problems are on the dell machine. Does the Dell have a
proprietary driver that needs to be loaded on floppy during the
installation procedure in order for the OS to see the drives connected
to the motherboard, such as a SATA or SCSI driver?

Ari

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