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[Demonicat]

Made a mistake...
I have recentlky acquired a second HD for my computer. All was well and good after it was pout in, but the computer was going very slow (odd for me). I went into CMOS and saw a few odd changes and made the idiotic mistake of clicking "load optimised defaults". And with that press of the button, my second HD dissapeared.
I should clarrify that it does show on BIOS as IDEChannel 01 slave drive, but shows no gigs or anything. Furthermore, I know that its loaded correctly becasue as Iof this morning I had files on it. The question is (in a roundabout way, I suppose) how do I set BIOS/CMOS to recognise this drive again. Help me diskdoctors!

[Bulsajo]

Perhaps this is stating the obvious, but why not try again?
Your CMOS should have a 'reset to default' option, try that.
And sometimes these things require a reboot or 3.

[Demonicat]

actually the "set to optimized efault" is what got me into this mess . When it was installed the korean computer dude did some really odd junk that slowed down the whole yeard (not to mention that he couldn't finish- I did). Anyway, what appears to be the difference is that the disk moved from master to slave with the cd-r drive takin the master position.

[Bulsajo]

You're going to need to provide more info.

There is no 'factory default'? Just 'optimized default'?

Who put the drive in, you?
Is it a sata or an eide HD?
Do you know whether you're using jumper or cable select?
If the later you should be able to change manually through CMOS, have you tried this?

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/idedrv1.html

http://www.basichardware.com/HowTo_Install_Hard_Drive.html

http://www.harddriveupgrade.com/

Can you describe the symptoms of the 'running slow' which made you decide to go and change the CMOS settings?

[Demonicat]

OK:

[Pangit]

I think it was the partitioning and the BIOS changes together that caused the problem. If you can remember what settings he used to set the drive up, it should be able to restore it to the setup that you had to get the multiple partitions going. Once you're there, recover your data, get rid of the partitions, then fdisk and reformat. Make sure your newly reformatted drive is set up as primary slave this time. I don't think it's necessary to use partitions unless you want to make them available for other users to access.

[Bulsajo]

Eide is ata, 99% probable that's what you have.

As Pangit says, it sounds like you might have goofed up on the partitioning of the drive.

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/partition1.html

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,73826,00.asp

http://fdisk.radified.com/



I'd highly recommend Power Quest's Partition Magic s/w, it's practically fool-proof.

[Demonicat]

What do I do if, by chance, I don't know how he set it up???

[Pangit]

My quick solution would be to consider the data on it a loss, fdisk and reformat, and make sure that the cables and jumpers are set up so that your new drive is a primary slave.

[Demonicat]

will try that and post tonight. Panjit, have I told you lately how awesome you and bulsajo are? I try to picture the two who are always there to answer my innane and nonsensical questions, and I must picture you too...and for some reason, in my head, you look like the myth busters.

[Bulsajo]

I look more like Siegfried and Pangit looks more like Roy.



I've heard that Demophobe and Dalton look like Hall and Oates...

[hypnotist]

It shouldn't (as I understand it) matter, but you might check that the BIOS's disk page has the various available slots set to Auto and not None, in a screen that looks a little like this (if you have one in your bios):

[Demonicat]

Fixed! Yeah! And recovered Data! The kick in the pants? SATA mode was set to normal- it needed enhanced-> this wqas in the IO settings. Thank you all so much.

[Pangit]

[Bulsajo]

Tiger?!?
I thought they were from that cougar with the cameltoe who jumped you in the Bellagio cocktail lounge!