Resolved Will not recognize drive 0

Removed battery from my Dell laptop running Win XP. After re-installing same battery the machine cannot find drive 0. Its like the drive was removed from the machine. Machine is app. 5 yrs old.

 

I really dont know Steve, will try to locate manual, or tear the thing apart to find out. All I know right now is it wont recognise the mbr or C:\ drive. It will accept DOS comands but will only go so far with the disc for winXP, tells me its loading XP up to a point and then tells me it cant find the drive 0.????

 

will not recognize drive

Steve----Broke the machine out again. On boot I get the message !primary hard disk drive 0 not found. No bootable drives try F-1 or F-2 for setup utility.
1st page of setup --Pent 4 3.06 GHz
Current Speed 3.06
256 MB memory
primary hard drive:NONE ?????????????
modular bay CD/RW/DVD combo
2d page of setup----Boot Order
Diskette drive
Internal HDD
USB storage
CD_DVD_RW drive
card bus nic (not checked)?????????
onboard nic (not checked)?????????

 

If you can't see the hard drive in the BIOS setup screens, it is quite possible that the hard drive has failed. Especially given the fact it's close to five years old.

 

You are quite right Doc. It will reside in the trash bin for a few days. Thanks for the help guys.

 

You're welcome.