Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Harddrive not found when optical drive attached

**TriggerFinger** · 02-02-2008, 11:39 PM

This is a long shot but I suggest you try replacing either the CD drive or the HDD with a known working one. Example... try replacing HDD first and attempt to boot from CD drive. If this works you can say your previous HDD has a problem. Same procedure for the CD drive. If you can get/borrow a spare try booting from it (old HDD installed) and see. Either way you will know if you have a defective CD drive or HDD. If the results are the same as the problem you posted initially, then it could be a motherboard problem. But of course, my approach will be first to update BIOS to latest release. Then if it still behaves the same, I will do the example I wrote above.

02-02-2008, 11:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
TriggerFinger Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: USA Posts: 11,791 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3, PCLinuxOS2007	Re: Harddrive not found when optical drive attached This is a long shot but I suggest you try replacing either the CD drive or the HDD with a known working one. Example... try replacing HDD first and attempt to boot from CD drive. If this works you can say your previous HDD has a problem. Same procedure for the CD drive. If you can get/borrow a spare try booting from it (old HDD installed) and see. Either way you will know if you have a defective CD drive or HDD. If the results are the same as the problem you posted initially, then it could be a motherboard problem. But of course, my approach will be first to update BIOS to latest release. Then if it still behaves the same, I will do the example I wrote above.