My friend has one SATA hard drive instaled on his computer, now he's windows got messed up and didnt want to boot, he got a bit pi**ed off and went into bios and tinkered with it... now he told me that in standard BIOS features in section where your BIOS detects all "removable" components (hard drives, DVD-roms etc.) where MAXTOR (he's hard drive was listed) he removed it from there... now that shouldnt be the problem, you just go back in, select auto-check and BIOS should see the hard drive again, but for some reason it aint happening, BIOS just refuses to see the hard drive...
I checked everything, with my own hardware, cables are working, hard drive is working, tryed connecting it to second SATA connector... everything is working, but he's BIOS just cant see the hard drive...
Anyone has any idea what's wrong?
there are only tree possible problems that get on my mind:
1. somethings wrong with BIOS configuration or with BIOS it self
2. both SATA connectors on motherboard are not functioning (highly unlikely)
3. all 3 free power cable connectors arnt working (also highly unlikely)
