Cannot find/detect Hard Drive

[SSJpn]

Here is the problem:

I was running WinME and all was working good. Then i decided to reformat and clean install Win2000. After i formated and tried to install Win2000, the Win2000 setup tells me that there is no hard drive detected. When i go into the BIOS and look at the bootup device order, I can't find my hard drive listed.. my only options are 'disable' or 'none' so all i can do is boot from floppy or CD-ROM.

What do i need to do to get my hard drive recognized again???

 

[SSJpn]

Oh and here is the funny thing...

I can boot off my boot-up floppy disk and use fdisk to format the so-called non-existing hard drive. So its obviously there and working... its just that the BIOS and Win2000 setup are not detecting it.

 

[SSJpn]

Haven't fixed the problem yet... anyone help?

 

[edfair]

How about using an older fdisk, say from 6.22, delete any partitions, rewrite the MBR and try again? Don't know if it will help. Ed Fair
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