BIOS doesnt load my hard drive correctly

[Stealth_Shot]

Recently I purchased a 80gig Maxtor hard drive off the Internet. The drive worked great for a few months. Now, when I boot up my computer on the one screen (with the energy saver logo) it displays Primary Master:None and then it correctly displays my other hard drive. I have the 80 gig hard drive set to the IDE primary master. The strange thing is, when I go into my BIOS and look at my IDE drivesm the BIOS correctly autodetects my drive. I also have my drive set to autodetect. Yet, when the system boots, it refuses to display my drive. Can anyone help me?

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Make sure all the cables are firmly seated. That goes for individual wires of the cables also.

 

[Stealth_Shot]

I have checked the IDE cable and power cable, and they seem to in correctly. What do you mean by the "individual wires of the cables"?

 

[fedele]

i am no tech expert but he probably meant the actual wires that go into the plug....check them. also download the diagnostic tool from maxtor website and do a full check...

 

[JJB6486]

Make a MS-DOS boot floppy with this program on it:

http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

Boot off the floppy and run that command from the DOS propmt. Ii will diagnose problems that would prevent a drive from being detected.

JJB