Hard drive is not detected by my computer!

[vegetto721]

Recently my hard drive gave me an error saying that a windows\system32\config\system was missing or corrupt. I was told to use the windows recovery tool on the windows xp install cd. However, when I tried that it says there are no hard disks at all! Same thing when I was trying to reinstall windows xp. Going into my bios, it says that my hardrive is there and is last in the boot device priority. I can hear my drive spin up and I believe it is physically working. I think it may have to do with the files or soemthing may have been corrupted on the drive. But I don't know what to do to try to resolve this problem. I can't access the drive at all even when putting it in my friends computer. Any suggestions?

 

[Inforcer]

What type is it? SATA or EIDE?

 

[vegetto721]

It's a SATA Western Digital 200gb hard drive. Sorry if my first post was not quite as coherent. It was late at night when I was posting.
I believe the problem occured when my fsb was overclocked unknowingly. Because my mobo doesn't have the option to lock the AGP/PCI bus. What I want to know is how I can repair the situation, how to get it to be detected so I can access the drive.

 

[Astray]

Set the AGP/PCI to 66/33, 1:1, or fixed, whatever your BIOS might display it as.

 

[DBSX]

What mobo? What chipset? How is the drive attached? (native controller? RAID controller? Add on card?) When you installed did you need to press F6 to add a controller? If so that's probably your problem. As to how to fic it, I'm not entirely sure (unless it asks for F6 and the driver disk) I've never done this, so I'm not sure.

\Dan

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: DBSX
What mobo? What chipset? How is the drive attached? (native controller? RAID controller? Add on card?) When you installed did you need to press F6 to add a controller? If so that's probably your problem. As to how to fic it, I'm not entirely sure (unless it asks for F6 and the driver disk) I've never done this, so I'm not sure.

\Dan

Correct. F6 to specify controller, have your controller's floppy ready - that will fix the issue.

 

[BadThad]

Originally posted by: dclive

Originally posted by: DBSX
What mobo? What chipset? How is the drive attached? (native controller? RAID controller? Add on card?) When you installed did you need to press F6 to add a controller? If so that's probably your problem. As to how to fic it, I'm not entirely sure (unless it asks for F6 and the driver disk) I've never done this, so I'm not sure.

\Dan

Correct. F6 to specify controller, have your controller's floppy ready - that will fix the issue.

If his controller is set to IDE mode in BIOS and he's not using a RAID configuration, there's no need to specify a controller using F6 during Windows setup.

 

[dclive]

If the drive cannot be seen when in recovery console, the most likely cause is that the drivers that were required were not specified. Specifying the drivers, via the F6 interface, would fix that particular issue, if that is the culprit.