I'm trying to format an old hard drive with Win 7 after installing Win 7 on new hard drive and get the error message above. I removed the old disk and chose "startup repair". Repair disc completes and diagnostic reads "root cause found the partition table does not have a valid system partition". When PC restarts I still get an error reading "No IDE Master H.D.D. Detected!
The BIOS will not let me change the drive configuration or boot order. I have DELL dimension 8300 with BIOS revision A03. I cannot update it as I get message "flash access denied" even though I am logged on as administrator. I believe it can be done from DOS but I don't know how. Can you help?
The BIOS will not let me change the drive configuration or boot order. I have DELL dimension 8300 with BIOS revision A03. I cannot update it as I get message "flash access denied" even though I am logged on as administrator. I believe it can be done from DOS but I don't know how. Can you help?