Cannot find my hard disk drive on My Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Ui 3520 to reinstall Windows Xp (IDE Channel 0 MASTER [NONE]. I am connecting an external usb dvd rom but the disk cannot find disk on my system.

Hey, either a hard disk corruption or some missing/corrupt files - Solution: Format and reinstall your Operating system. If that doesnt work, maybe you need a hard disk replacement.
But before that, are you sure you haven't connected any USB drives or flash drives or an external hard drive when you computer boots up. That could be the reason. Solution: disconnect any such device before you start your computer.

Try scan de operating system partition with an dedicated program, from a bootable CD or reinstall the operating system.

could be hard drive failure,or you might try to reinstall windows before bying a new hardrive,but before any of that go to the BIOS and make sure that the boot order is right usualy hard drive first

If You're Getting That Message... Then It's Not Recognising The Physical Hardware... The Drive Itself...

Pull Hard Drive Out And Reinsert It... Then Go Into Your BIOS Setup... Ensure That Your Hard Drive Shows Up In There....If Not, Your Hard Drive Most Likely Is Faulty and Will Need Replacing..

You Will Still Need Either A Recovery CD Or Just An OS Cd..(XP/Vista etc..)

your amilo 3520 can support up to 4gig memmory that would be 2x2gig

Just pres F2 key on startup. Go into bios. In bios find HDD and press enter next to mode. Select IDE mode and press f10 to save changes and exit. You can install XP now. Alternatively you can use USB floppy drive to load SATA drivers.
Let me know if you need assistance on that

have you tried a fresh install of xp I do not understand?

Pedro -

I'll assume each of these is an IDE device, meaning each has a wide connector versus a narrow SATA connector commonly found on newer hard drives.

Your motherboard should have two IDE channels, labeled IDE 1 and IDE 2, Primary IDE and Secondary IDE, or something similar. Each IDE channel can support two devices.

For best performance between the drives, you will want to have the Hard Drive connected as Master(Drive 0) on the Primary IDE channel; The CDROM should be connected as Slave(Drive 1) on the Primary IDE channel. Connect the DVDROM as Master(Drive 0) on the Secondary IDE channel, and the ZIP Drive as Slave on the Secondary IDE channel.

When connecting the drives, make sure you set the jumpers correctly; Both the Hard Drive and the DVDROM should have their jumpers set to Master, the CDROM and Zip drives should have their jumpers set to Slave. An alternative is to set the jumpers for every drive to Cable Select(CS), allowing the physical connection of each drive to determine whether its a Master or Slave device.

*Note*
If your Hard Drive is a SATA device, connect it to the '0' or '1' SATA connector on the motherboard. Have the DVDROM set up by itsself as Master on the primary IDE channel, the CDROM as Master on the Secondary IDE channel, and the ZIP as Slave on the Secondary IDE channel.

Hope this helps!
-thinstatic

HI! Yes you can upgrade your Hard drive from a 30GB (std size) to as much as 120GB. The only thing yu need to be sure of is that you need to buy a IDE 2.5" HDD which is a little bit hard to find but is still available. Try to google some suppliers online.


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Yes, you can up to 120 GB IDE 2.5" HDD. You can buy it from any PC store near you ar order online.


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