BIOS won't detect Hard Drive???

[circlek]

A friend used his 'restore' cd rom on his Compaq to restore the drive but it locked the system up. He re-booted and now the BIOS won't detect the drive. It detects other drives I tried on it. I took his drive out and put it on my system and my BIOS won't detect it either. Drive is set to 'MASTER' and was working before the restore. BIOS is set to 'AUTO' detect. FDISK won't work unless BIOS recognizes drive. Any sugestions???

 

[circlek]

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[wnied]

As goofy as this is going to sound, try freezing the hard drive in your freezer for about 2-3 hours, get it nice and frosty and then re install it. See if the BIOS sees it then. If it does, then you know your hard drive spindle is dead and you need to send it back to the manufacturer.

wnied

 

[Punikin]

This same incident happened to my brothers compaq laptop before. BIOS couldn't detect the hard drive. So booting with a floppy and using FDISK didn't work. Paid a professional repair dude to fix it and he got it working by formatting it. Now, how the hell did he format the hard disk if the BIOS can't detect it? I noticed the laptop was returned back with a bootable floppy with CD-ROM support. I have an identical floppy which I already tried using. Very strange.

 

[circlek]

freezer.....hummm....well, I've tried everything else. I'll let you know.