Posted by DAN on January 28, 19101 at 12:50:19:
In Reply to: harddrive not recognized on Acer posted by James Crocker on January 28, 19101 at 08:58:19:
ALLTHE BIOS SET UP'S ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT,,
FROM BIOS SET UP PICK,,THE FIRST WINDOW,,MASTER DISK,NOW SEE IF YOU HAVE A PERIPHERAL SET UP,,IT MAY BE CALLED ANOTHER NAME,,LOOK TRY HERE FOR
AN OPTION TO TURN ON LBA,,SAVE SETTINGS AND EXIT,,
NOW TRY TO AUTO DETECT THE HARD DRIVE,,
ALSO IF YOURS BRINGS UP AN OPTION THAT HAS THREE OPTIONS TO PICK FROM ON LARGE DRIVE TRY THE LARGE
IF LBA DOESNT WORK,,DON'T GIVE UP,,YOU'LL GET IT,,
BUT MOST OF THE TIME YOU DO NEED TO SET IT AS NO HAD DRIVE INSTALLED BEFORE TRYING TO DETECT A NEW SETTING BECAUSE IT KEEPS GOING TO THE WRONG ONE THATS ALREADY SELECTED,,I HAVE EVEN HAD TO DETECT THE HARD DRIVE IN A NEWER COMPUTER TO GET CORRECT SETTINGS,,THEN MANUALY SET THEM IN THE OLD COMPUTER,,,IF YOU DO DETECT IT IN A DIFFERENT COMPUTER,,,START TAPPING ON F8 KEY ON BOOT UP AND SELECT SAFE MODE TO KEEP IT FROM RE CONFIGGURING IT TO THE [DIFFERENT COMPUTER]
DAN
DAN
PRIMARY R WHAT EVER,,IT'S PROB SET TO USER,,CHANGE THIS TO NONE,,FROM ADVANGED,ON SYSTEM BOOT UP SEQUENCE,,SET IT FOR C: ONLY
OR AT LEAST C: FIRST,,AND IF THERE IS A OPTION TO
: For some reason I pressed "restore default" in the Award Bios of a 1995 75 pentium Acer. The 820mb hard drive is no longer recognized. I have changed all the settings I find in the setup but it will still not autodetect. The drive and specs are shaded but not accessable in the bios setup. Help says I need to enable LBA in the bios. It is not listed as such. I have used fat32 since instaling Win98 several months ago. How can I restore access to this drive?