Dell dimension e520

[Mikey79]

Windows will not load and says drive 4 and 5 not found serial ATA SATA 4 and 5

 

[Mikey79]

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Question from Mikey79 : "Dell dimension e520"

Windows will not load and says drive 4 and 5 not found serial ATA SATA 4 and 5

 

[The Paladin]

boot in bios and look at status of the drive, are they showing up ?

 

[Mikey79]

Yes they are

 

[The Paladin]

and windows refuses to boot, have you tried loading into safe mode ?

 

[Mikey79]

and windows refuses to boot, have you tried loading into safe mode ?

 

[Mikey79]

Yes

 

[bambiboom]

Windows will not load and says drive 4 and 5 not found serial ATA SATA 4 and 5

Mikey79,

Items on the E520 to

CHECK:

1. If you don't have a disk utility, download and install EaseUs Partition Master Free. This can display settings, volumes, format, clone, partition, and set all kinds of parameters for disks.

2. BIOS: That the SATA ports to which the drives are connected enabled and disable ports to which there are no drives.

3. > That the partition containing Windows is set as "active" and that no other partition is active. You can check and make these setting using Partition Master.

4. The status of RAID. Does the system start with a RAID BIOS screen? Find out if the disks are set as "non-raid"

Cheers,

BambiBoom

Dell Dimension E520 (2006)( Original): Pentium D 830 dual core @3.0GHz > 2GB DDR2 667 > GeForce 7300LE > 2X Dell 19" LCD > Windows XP Professional 32-bit
[Passmark system rating = 384, CPU = 613 / 2D= 248 / 3D=72 / Mem= 562 / Disk=521]

Dell Dimension E520 (2006)( Revised): Core2 Duo E6700 dual core @2.66GHz > 4GB DDR2 667 > GeForce GT440 (1GB GDDR5) >Windows 7 Professional 64-bit > 2X WD 320GB> Dynex 32" LCD TV>
[Passmark system rating = 1219, CPU = 2024 / 2D= 457 / 3D=978 / Mem= 828 / Disk=576]

Pending Upgrades: Core2 Quad Q6700, WD Blue 1TB, +4GB RAM