Topic: HP Pavilion - Disk 1/0 error

[esley]

Ok thanks & goodnite

[Adept]

Hi esley!

It sounds very much to me like the hard drive isn't being detected by the BIOS

According to this HP document you should be able to set the hard drive from the Main menu. It doesn't say how, but I have a feeling that you simply move to that option using the cursor keys and press enter. There should be some further options, possibly one for Auto.

[Sandra]

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#BIOSTOP

Not 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=590

I hope you get to the bottom of this soon ( I need my sleep   )and apologise for sending you multiple copies of the same message last night as it appears they did go but werent showing as going on my page  

Good luck  

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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[esley]

Sandra, want to thank you for the help , and it was the HD that took a poop. Take Care Esley

[Sandra]

Sorry to hear that,I had one die on me at the beginning of December  
Glad you got to the bottom of it,sorry it took so long.Did the Maxtor utility find it out for you ?

[esley]

No, I had a old 600mb seagate/win95,stuck it in and it took off. Take Care

[bat69]

I've got two of those in a box, don't suppose you want another  

Sorry to hear it was your HD, hope you haven't lost too much data