Matt,
I'm sure you've already done this, but I would go back into the case
and check the cables and jumpers on the drive. 90% of the time, when I
see stuff like this, I bumped a cable loose, or forgot I changed a
jumper on the drive to match the expected new setup.
-Mike
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:56 -0800, Matthew Jarvis wrote:
> I decided to have some fun Sun afternoon by trying to add an extra drive
> to my desktop PC (Win2k pro).... that went no where so I decided to just
> call it a day and go back to my original configuration...
>
> Now the machine won't see the (original) hard drive at all.
>
> I thought I'd make it a learning experience by booting up live version
> of Ubuntu to see what I could see.... nadda....
>
> Going with the specs on the drive and setting them manually in BIOS,
> still no go.
>
> One really odd thing is that I am virtually certain that all this time
> I've had a 9gig drive in there, yet the markings on the drive are for a
> 15+ gig drive. I got this thing a few years ago from the guys over at
> ComputerBase on the cheap....
>
> I vaguely remember that when I started on this ordeal that I did see in
> the BIOS for the drive that it was 15 something gigs.... I just didn't
> pay very close attention....
>
> Using specs on the drive the BIOS calcs a size around 9 gig, yet the
> thing specifically says it's something 15+ gigs.... odd stuff....
>
> Obviously the problem isn't Windows or Ubuntu - it's just the BIOS isn't
> seeing the hard drive.... I'm a bit nervous about playing around with
> those BIOS settings too much out of fear of loosing data off the drive...
>
> Any suggestions or thoughts on how I should proceed?
>
> Matthew S. Jarvis
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