My computer has auto bios detection BUT it will NOT detect the settings for my WD800BB hard drive ! ! ! ! !

Hi,go to bios setting first boot would be the hard disk and the second booth would be the optical drive.thanks

One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive

Test all leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions,IDE,SATA

the leads from your motherboard to your hard drive make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them there probably old and faulty

hope this helps

Enter the BIOS and select the item for Load optimal defaults or factory defaults, remember to set the date and time. You may also have to auto detect the hard drives by selecting the auto detect hard drives.

Set the BIOS to auto for the hard drive and it should find it and set it as needed.

If it still does not find it there is a chance that any problem may be with the hard drive itself.

Configuring the BIOS
After completing the drive installation, restart your computer. Your computer
may automatically detect your new drive. If your computer does not
automatically detect your new drive, follow the steps below.
1. Restart your computer. While the computer restarts, run the system
setup program (sometimes called BIOS or CMOS setup). This is usually
done by pressing a special key, such as DELETE, ESC, or F1 during
the startup process.
2. Within the system setup program, instruct the system to auto detect
your new drive.
3. Save the settings and exit the setup program.
When your computer restarts, it should recognize your new drive.

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Change out ur BIOS settings about External drives.
Bye

Make sure your jumpers on your hard drive are properly set. Also, test another cable to rule out that your IDE cable hasn't faulted. You can also go into your bios settings on startup and check to make your hard drive is detected, if not run the auto detection and see if it is seen then.

Strike F2 to go to the bios to run the setup utility

Don't touch anything , save and reboot

If primary hard disk still not found

reboot press F2 to re-enter the bios

Look for Auto Detect Hard Disks

if the computer shows a hard drive is detected

set the drive to LBA if possible

save and reboot



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try bios settings it may be set for a particular hard drive not yours and not on auto detect set for auto detect

Check the jumper settings on the back of the drive, if this is the primary HD, set it to master, if secondary, set it to slave, if secondary still does not recognize, switch the ide cable so that the two drives are not on the same one.