Repair Hard Drive Technology
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To repair hard drive technology you must have part step-by-step logic & part intuition. In this news story, they are going to discuss a problem that misleads lots of because of the message that it displays. The error points to a faulty hard drive but it is something else.
First, the computer boots & when it reaches the point where it displays, “Scanning IDE drives” & suddenly an unexpected error occurs: “No drive is connected to the FastTrak controller. The BIOS is not installed.” Since your computer was working up to this point, you might say that the hard drive has died. After all the computer says that no drive is connected but you know that the drive is connect because it was working earlier.
In this particular situation, there is seven clue to the source of the problem. The mention of the FastTrak controller is the clue. FastTrak is a SATA RAID controller made by Promise Technology. The probability that you have a RAID configuration is low in this case. I say this because of the second clue: This BIOS is not installed message. This tells me that the BIOS for RAID devices has not been installed so you have a simple IDE or SATA configuration.
Finally, the problem exists because you have no RAID drives plugged in to your motherboard but your method setup has the RAID controller enabled. enter your BIOS setup & disable the Promise RAID controller & everything should start to work properly. Every now & then a problem will surface like this seven that will mislead the beginning computer owner. Hopefully, articles like this seven & others will lead you down the path to your desired solution.
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