maebach
08-18-2010, 03:49 AM
I have PC running Windows 7 and it has had no problems up until recently. A few days ago, it froze and a family member unplugged the computer from the back (he pulled the cord). He first tried to press the on/off button in the front of the computer but it didnt do anything so thats why he pulled the cord. At first I though the HDD had died, so I turned on the computer and listened. It powered up normally and I can hear and feel the disks spinning without making any unusual noises. In the BIOS, it says that no Primary IDE Master is detected. I've checked the cables and even swapped my SATA cable for another one the HDD still wont detect.
First screen that comes up:
Scanning IDE Drives.... (It doesnt detect any so I get the second screen)
After this I have a couple of options:
CTRL+F Fastbuild Utility or ESC to continue boot
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/2883/img1046u.th.jpg (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/img1046u.jpg/)
If I press nothing I get the message:
No Hard Disk Drive Detected!
Press F1 to resume
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9205/img1048zr.th.jpg (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/img1048zr.jpg/)
Pressing F1 gets me:
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4870/img1049c.th.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/i/img1049c.jpg/)
During the second screen, I held CTRL+F and got to a FastBuild utility screen. I did a little reading and it seems like this program is used to create/edit RAID controllers. I only have 1 hard drive in my pc.
FastBuild Utility:
1=Auto Setup
2= View Drive Assignments
3=Define Array
4=Delete Array
5=RebuildArray
When I press '1'.
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/758/img1041nk.th.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/i/img1041nk.jpg/)
When I press '2'
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7884/img1043hr.jpg (http://img193.imageshack.us/i/img1043hr.jpg/)
When I press '3'
http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/2811/img1044g.th.jpg (http://img802.imageshack.us/i/img1044g.jpg/)
As you can see, the motherboard is clearly detecting the hard drive. Otherwise, I wouldnt be able to see it in the array settings, right? I've never worked with RAID before so I'm mostly guessing. I dont understand why I cannot seem to boot from it or why the array screen would show my HDD considering its just one.
Thanks in advance!
First screen that comes up:
Scanning IDE Drives.... (It doesnt detect any so I get the second screen)
After this I have a couple of options:
CTRL+F Fastbuild Utility or ESC to continue boot
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/2883/img1046u.th.jpg (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/img1046u.jpg/)
If I press nothing I get the message:
No Hard Disk Drive Detected!
Press F1 to resume
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9205/img1048zr.th.jpg (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/img1048zr.jpg/)
Pressing F1 gets me:
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4870/img1049c.th.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/i/img1049c.jpg/)
During the second screen, I held CTRL+F and got to a FastBuild utility screen. I did a little reading and it seems like this program is used to create/edit RAID controllers. I only have 1 hard drive in my pc.
FastBuild Utility:
1=Auto Setup
2= View Drive Assignments
3=Define Array
4=Delete Array
5=RebuildArray
When I press '1'.
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/758/img1041nk.th.jpg (http://img8.imageshack.us/i/img1041nk.jpg/)
When I press '2'
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/7884/img1043hr.jpg (http://img193.imageshack.us/i/img1043hr.jpg/)
When I press '3'
http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/2811/img1044g.th.jpg (http://img802.imageshack.us/i/img1044g.jpg/)
As you can see, the motherboard is clearly detecting the hard drive. Otherwise, I wouldnt be able to see it in the array settings, right? I've never worked with RAID before so I'm mostly guessing. I dont understand why I cannot seem to boot from it or why the array screen would show my HDD considering its just one.
Thanks in advance!