I bow to your superior knowledge Adept but Esley said earlier "in the bios, under the MAIN tab it says primary master-- 40982 " Doesnt this mean that the Bios is detecting the drive after all?
I found this site for Phoenix Bios
http://www.phoenix.com/en/support/bios+support/awardbios/bios+faqs.htm#BIOSTOPNot sure if it will help as it doesnt give any specific settings or displays,but it says how to restore to its default setting which may help:
PhoenixBIOS -- On a computer with a PhoenixBIOS, you can press the F9 key in Setup
to restore the default values specified by the manufacturer.
As you think it is a Maxtor Drive then a diagnostic utility (Powermax.exe) is available for downloading onto a floppy from their site:
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=590I hope you get to the bottom of this soon ( I need my sleep
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Edited to add: Can someone make the Phoenix link work properly please?
If no one has you will have to copy and paste it all in your address bar
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