We have often faced situations where after opening “My Computer” in XP or “Computer” in Vista we are not able to see the hard drive, it is absolutely blank or has the entries of CD/DVD etc. but no hard drive is there. Now, if you have come across with any such problem, how to resolve the issue. You can get in touch with a computer help provider to get technical support but you can try some simple things to deal with such situation. In this article you will learn what to do when hard drive is not detected by bios.
Once you find the hard-drive is not detected by bios, the very first thing that you should try out is to restart the computer and see whether the issue gets resolved or not. Many a time restarting the computer resolves the problem. You may ask why exactly such a thing happens. There are a number of reasons which can cause this problem. Some of them are discussed below:
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We have to see whether the hard-drive that you are using is an old one with a new system or not. Is the cable connector between the hard-drive and the controllers properly set or not? Replace the cables if required.
• You can also try out the hard-drive on a different mother-board to cross check. It should also be checked whether by chance the hard drive has been disabled or not which might be a silly cause of the hard-drive not getting detected. While the computer is booting up we will have to see whether the hard-drive entry shows up on the computer screen during POST or not. The latest BIOS versions enables the BIOS to wait for the hard-drive to spin up and to reply to the BIOS query but the older BIOSs might not be able to do so requiring a BIOS update although that should be tried as the last option.
• Is the HARD-drive spinning up with a normal sound or is it powering down after a few seconds? It could be a problem with the power supply as well if the hard-drive is not powering up properly. Check for the jumper settings, are they configured properly? Generally, it is a “Master” for single device in a single cable and if used with a slower device like a CD Rom for example, then also we keep the hard drive as “master”.
• It might have so happened that everything was working properly except yesterday, when you booted up your computer to see that there is no entry of a hard-drive. Virus infection could be the probable cause and a total scan of the computer for virus is recommended. You can also talk to an expert for virus removal support.
There are many other factors which can cause this problem. There are many computer repair company that help the computer users to cope with these types of problems. So, when your hard drive is not detected by BIOS, you can ask help from them as well.
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Sometimes HDD of the computer is not detected due to virus. You can talk to a computer repair company for getting antivirus support to solve the problem.
