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please help sometimes on starting up my pc doesnt find my hard drives, sometimes it finds 1 sometimes both sometimes neither of them or any of my disk drives and sometimes it looses connection half way through doing something. if i restart it sometimes it cures the problem sometimes not, without touching anything it seems to just sort itself for a while then only shows the master drive and sometimes it just freezes completely i guess cuz its lost the master drive again.... ANYWAY PLEASE HELP. many thanx in advance to any one good enough to reply
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Hello and welcome to PC Help Forum.

Ok are you familiar to BIOS settings?Or the insides of a PC?

What type of hard drives have you got?IDE or SATA?


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cant acess bois password protected plus same problem with hard drives when put them in diff computer
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To by pass BIOS password turn off PC and unplug from power supply take out BIOS battery for 1 minute replace then reboot PC.

What type of hard drives are they?SATA or IDE?If IDE did you set jumprers to master or slave?

If both SATA did you setup a RAID?


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they are sata drives, have same problem when put them in other pc. what do you do after rebooting after removing battery?
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sorry both drives are ide, dont know if slave has jumper on it

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