Failed To Detect One Or More Drives During Post
Failed To Detect One Or More Drives During Postal
Failed to detect one or more drives during post. Make sure hard drive is set as the first boot device. Suggest you to contact the computer manufacturer for. 1779-Slot 1 Drive Array - Replacement drive(s) detected OR previously failed. Drives(s) now appear to be operational: Port 1E: Box 1: Bays 3,7. Logical drive(s) disabled dues to possible data loss. Select 'F1' to continue with logical drive(s) disabled. Select 'F2' to accept data loss and to re-enable logical drive(s) (RESUME='F1 OR 'F2' KEY).
Failed To Detect One Or More Drives During Posture
I currently have a computer I am working on and let's just say, I've aged since having it. It's a DELL (desktop) 420. The owner brought it to me and upon turning it on, I get a message stating that it cannot boot up because it fails to detect the drive. When I go to the BIOS, the drive is right there AND present. I then have the option to hit F1 to continue, F2 for the setup and F5 for diagnostics. When I hit F1, the computer gets past the Windows Splah screen and then continuously goes into that neverending loop of the boot options (Safe mode, safe mode with networking, start normally).
Thinking that the drive was bad, I got a new one and had the same problem.
I inserted an XP disk and tried to get to the Recovery Console. Everything seemed to be going fine until right after the 'Starting Windows' message. Right there I got hit with one of those STOP errors and after some research, the error relates to an inaccessible boot device. Well of course THAT makes sense. So, the known 'fix' (Recovery Console) is barried by this STOP error which would not allow me to access it.
Well, I yanked out the hard drive and plopped it into my cousin's computer (he has a similar model) and I was able to format and reload windows using his computer (not sure why I did not go for the Recovery Console fix at the time but there must have been a reason). Thinking I was good to go, I then set the hard drive back into the problem computer only to find myself back at square one (failed to detect one or more drives on POST). So, how can I even attempt to fix this dang thing when I can't even get past the initial boot up?
HEEEEEEELLLLP!!!!
Oh, I forgot to mention a BIG part of this. Her CD-Rom crapped out so she received a new one from DELL. For some odd reason, it shows in the BIOS, it lights up, you hear the CD rolling, but it does NOT boot from the CD even as the first boot device. Yes, I tried about 4 different XP CDs. When I remove the power from the CD drive, the BIOS does not see it. When I plug it in, the BIOS sees it.
Thinking that the drive was bad, I got a new one and had the same problem.
I inserted an XP disk and tried to get to the Recovery Console. Everything seemed to be going fine until right after the 'Starting Windows' message. Right there I got hit with one of those STOP errors and after some research, the error relates to an inaccessible boot device. Well of course THAT makes sense. So, the known 'fix' (Recovery Console) is barried by this STOP error which would not allow me to access it.
Well, I yanked out the hard drive and plopped it into my cousin's computer (he has a similar model) and I was able to format and reload windows using his computer (not sure why I did not go for the Recovery Console fix at the time but there must have been a reason). Thinking I was good to go, I then set the hard drive back into the problem computer only to find myself back at square one (failed to detect one or more drives on POST). So, how can I even attempt to fix this dang thing when I can't even get past the initial boot up?
HEEEEEEELLLLP!!!!
Oh, I forgot to mention a BIG part of this. Her CD-Rom crapped out so she received a new one from DELL. For some odd reason, it shows in the BIOS, it lights up, you hear the CD rolling, but it does NOT boot from the CD even as the first boot device. Yes, I tried about 4 different XP CDs. When I remove the power from the CD drive, the BIOS does not see it. When I plug it in, the BIOS sees it.