lost hard drive after resetting bios?

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the50doctor

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hey, i lost hard drive"d" after resetting bios in dell oiptiplex by removing battery and letting pc sit. it no longer shows the icon in "my computer"......before i had a "c" drive and "d" drive as hard drives. now it only sees 1. should i tell bios to "see" 2nd drive? thanks
 
do you have 2 drives or was it a partition? If you set all the drives to auto detect in the BIOS you should be good to go.
 
Cromewell said:
do you have 2 drives or was it a partition? If you set all the drives to auto detect in the BIOS you should be good to go.
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tried that, worked wonders. set all to auto, btw, whats ide?
after i set to auto, they all showed up..hard drives c,d and cd roms too. thanks
 
the50doctor said:
btw, whats ide?
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IDE is a form of connection, its getting a bit dated now, recognisable by the big (1.5") connectors on the motherboard and IDE device. Caps at 133Mb/s. hats where SATA comes in, starts at 150Mb/s and goes up from there, SATA is recognisable by the small (1cm) connectors on the motherboard and SATA device.
 
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