On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:09 pm, Marc wrote: > On Saturday 20 March 2004 04:36 pm, Anne Wilson 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. > > > > You could be right, but I was thinking that Gateway may have > > already doctored the drives before sending them out. After > > all, recovery disks usually mean setting everything back to a > > blank install, so it would be quite possible. > > > > Anne > > You may be correct. I will look into that if the owner of > the machine decides to try it again. But I am failing to > understand some things here I really don't have extensave > knowledege of some of the fine points of hardware design but I > would think that the bios would in most cases detect the HDD > from a prom on the circuit board of the HDD and not from data > on the disk itself similar to a CD drive, stick of memory etc. > I would normally think that what is written on the HDD would > have little or no effect on how the bios detects it. This dont > not seem to be the case with this machine. Am I having a > misunderstanding of how the BIOS detects hardware? Any hardware > experts on the list ?
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm Y'all might wanna bookmark this site. The explainations are human readable ;) I was gonna stay out of this because I only have negative sentiments for _any_ ready made for Windoze systems. It's not just Gateway, Dell's no better. Think about it .... they put Packard Bell out of business by sellin even cheaper junk than PB did. While Zeus went out of business tryin to maintain and sell quality ready made systems. 'Bout the only advice I can give is .. _Never_ work on other peoples ready made systems. The only thing I can think of is was the HDD set to "Auto"? Sometimes setting to "LBA" clears things up. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10 BUT IMO, the best sources for troubleshooting info at this time for 10.0 is the cooker ML archive http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&; and a bugzilla search http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Proud to be an American
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