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Primary IDE Maste NOT DETECTED!

Last answer on Jun 28, 2009 3:03:30 pm BST Hawk, on Jun 27, 2009 9:41:37 pm BST 
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Hello,
At first, my computer was giving me "NTLDR is missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart ". i managed to fix this problem but now my computer boots with no problem, however, i am trying to format my pc' hard drive which is a sata disk but it isn't recognized. when i try to format the disk, it gives me that no disk is connected to my computer.

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 deepbreathe, on Jun 28, 2009 3:03:30 pm BST

Hello to use a sata hard drive on your computer you will have to configure your bios, changing the sata operation to SATA as it's on the IDE mode!

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