Tecra S1 - Bios does not detect HARD drive

Hi, first time poster, long drive date.

I have a friends laptop with me an old S1, its hard drive has failed. (Even tried it on my USB adapter to diagnose).

I had another IDE HDD which works like a dream.
I can even install Windows up to a point with the exception of when the computer wants to do the first restart of the second phase of the installation. (Not on CD).

In the bios the HARD drive is not detected a 0 MB for the read command.
I tested the USB HARD drive. So works perfectly. will try another hard drive there tomorrow see what is happening.

I tried the recovery CD aswell. But she also can not detect the hard drive.
Finally, I even reflashed the Bios even if it was the last version 2.50.
Still did not change.

If I'm just at a loss here. Tomorrow I'll do the following.

Try a 3rd HDD IDE into the machine.

Opening of the case and see if I can find the CMOS battery to replace or remove for a minute or 2 to see what is happening.
Is obviously a problem of bios of the HARD drive is detected. Has anyone ever encountered this before?

Windows / ERD Commander / Partition Magic 8 all finding the end hard drive.
Thanks for listening to my dribble that I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall being close.

Kind regards

Dave

What drive did you use and what size it it?
I think that not all HARD drive would be compatible because of the 28-bit LBA.

The 28-bit LBA supports hard disks up to 128GB and if the IDE controller supports only 28-bit LBA then it may happen that more large drives would not be recognized by the BIOS.

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