Comments on: Hard Drive Does Not Show Up In BIOS

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:36:59 +0000

The top casing of the hard drive? Or the computer? Not really sure what the problem is, but based on the hard drive size, it sounds like an older drive that may have died. If there is data on the drive you need, you can try hooking it up to an external case or installing it as a second drive in a working computer and then pull the data off.

By: enoch

enoch — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:34:44 +0000

Hi,I have a 80GB toshiba hdd2d38 hard drive which started to hang recently.after removing its top cover casing and fixing it back,it would run from the bios but when it comes to the windows startup page,it remains like that and I realized that the disk don’t make any sound at that point till I power it off.what should I do resolve the problem?thanks

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:55:20 +0000

Are there any jumpers on the drive? If so, remove it.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:49:03 +0000

Old cpu died. Pulled the IDE hard drive out and put it into a new CPU as a 2nd hard drive. I used an IDE to SATA converter to hook it up. But its not showing in the bios.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:54:28 +0000

The drives might very well still be good. Since this problem has happened before, I would try the drives in another PC and see if you can get them to recognize the drives. This might be a motherboard problem, but it might also be a power supply problem. If the power supply is insufficient, the drives might be causing it to fail when they begin spinning up.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:25:52 +0000

I have a secondary Seagate internal terabyte drive that I am using for media storage. I went to work one yesterday and everything was fine, I left my Windows 7 system running as I usually do. I came home and the screen showed a stalled boot post display, and the last line said `Boot manager not found`. I had to reboot. At that point the bios stopped detecting my second drive and only detected the main drive and my DVD writer.

Not sure why it was rebooting when I wasn`t there to tell it to do so, and also the boot manager message is confusing because that seems like it couldn`t find the C: drive at that point either.

Need help, because I think this might be a mobo problem and not a drive issue. I have been having odd problems for a while, such as drive detection and boot sometimes fails when USB devices are plugged into the mobo… Could it be that some electrical problem is causing my SATA connection not to function rather than this being a dead drive issue? I certainly hope so…

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:15:53 +0000

This is a second hard drive? Did you look under disk management (right click Computer, select Manage, then Disk management). The drive may need to be partitioned and formatted in order for you to see it. It should still show up under the BIOS, though. weird.

By: Nityan

Nityan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:13:19 +0000

I have a Sata hdd that shows up in device manager but it doesn’t show up in BIOS or Windows Explorer