AJP NEO PC Problem (Solved)

[sinno]

Here is a tough 1,i was asked to have a look at this 1,it is a all in one pc,came without harddrive but sata connections were there,i formatted a 500gb into 2 partitions 1 fat32 and the other ntfs,i installed the harddrive but it will not be recognised by a install disk of xp pro,i went into the bios and there is no recognition of the drive there either even with the sata master set to auto,does anyone know of a way to make this drive recognisable to the bios,or even where i might find a bios for this machine,as far as i am aware the company went bust a number of years ago and from my own preliminary searches i cant locate a bios for it
Any help would be much appreciated

 

[sinno]

Just to add to this it is a Pheonix cME First BIOS Notebook Pro
Bios Ver 1.00.POC
KBC ver 1.00.01
If anyone can help in finding this it would be much appreciated

 

[axxxo]

Maybe try formatting the complete drive with no partitions to either fat32 or NTFS, if its recognised do the partition afterwards?

 

[sinno]

Tried that Axxxo,opened up the end bay for the hdd and found an ide slot so tried a old larger sized hdd and wouldnt work,plugged in a 15 gb one from a much older comp and it was recognised,this brought about its own set of problems with the bios being shadowed and no way to turn it off

 

[sinno]

I actually cracked this nut,after fixing the mbr with the recovery console and then fixing the fixboot also in the console the ide drive allowed a full instalation of xp,chkdsk told me the disk was ok so it was a process of elimination,this thing was so bad i was going to give up but perseverance paid off,dissapointed the sata drive wouldnt work,im sure when xp is up and running i could get the appropriate drives but for now im leaving the 15gb in and putting the sata 500gb into a enclosure as a external and giving the comp back,so if the mods can put SOLVED on this that would be great