On Saturday 20 March 2004 02:55 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Marc wrote:
> > No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think the
> > problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same problem
> > happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as something non microsux was
> > written to the HDD the bios could no longer see the HDD and after the
> > drive was reformatted with winsux tools the bios could find it again.
>
> Maybe the problem is your bios needs upgrading ?
>
> John
Thats what I thought also but first something with bios that screwed up
should have never been shiped and second the owner of the machine is
concerned with warrenty issues that a bios upgrade could cause. This machine
is only a few months old.
IMHO a person should not have to screw around for hours to simply be able to
begin to install a different OS. Even with the cheep low end machines I
have never seen anything like this!! Also my MAIN point is that the bios
must have almost been made that way on purpose for it to not reconise any HDD
with a non Microsux OS on it. I would guess that it would be possible to get
a bios upgrade from intel but difficult at best to get one from Gateway but I
may look into it further.
Marc
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