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How to get NEC Versa M100 to recognize hard drive?

I have an NEC Versa M100 and when I turn it on, it tells me there is no boot device and to press F1 to go to "Auto Start". I do so and It brings me to a sort of modified BIOS. It says "Hard Drive 1 Not Installed" The options are "BIOS Defined Type", "Custom Defined Type", and "Not Installed". I pulled the hard drive and it gives me the number of heads, cylinders and sectors per track, but not Precomp or Landing Zone, which are two other numbers that it needs. Without them it still won't boot. Plus, if I change it from "Not Installed" to anything and restart it and go back into the Auto Start it tells me that the settings in Auto Start and the settings detected by POST are different and it marks the ones that are different and it is Hard Drive 1 and it says it should be "Not Installed". I looked at the BIOS Defined types and there are 44 of them, and only 2 with 16 heads like my HD, and the Precomp and Landing Zone on both of them was -1. I tried it and it still doesn't work. So, does anyone know how to fix this, or is there an Autodetect somewhere? I have another HD I could use, but I couldn't get it to pick it up either. I can boot off of the floppy drive though. I got into DOS from the DOS 6.0 Upgrade floppy but it said it didn't detect any HD. So, any ideas?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Usually, computers auto detect the hard drive installed. Check your connections. Also check your hard drive, may be it's gone.

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