hard drive not detected

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i got this error this morning when turn on my computer

it seems like my computer won't detect my hard drive on boot up, i finally be able to got it to work by cold booting (turn it off and then on) 7 times

it happens on the boot up screen, when bios try to detect primary master and primary slave

i also look at my hard drive and the IDE ribbon is securly attactched, so there's no any physical error

my system spec:
windows 98 SE
pentium 3 733MHz
384 RAM
nvidia geforce 4 mx 420
soundblaster pci 128

1st edit: is it possible the above error is caused by:
2 x VIA Tech 3038 PCI to USB Universal Host Controller, PCI OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller, SCI IRQ used by ACPI bus, and ACPI IRQ hoder for PCI Steering all on IRQ 9?
 
No I don't think its related to the IRQ sharing.

You should go into the BIOS options and go to the "IDE HDD DETECTION" (or whatever) screen. Let it detect the drives once, and it should retain those settings. This is different than setting the drives to "auto" (which forces them to be detected each time you boot)
 
nope.......

By the way, my suggestion might not actually fix the problem-- it's just a better way to set up your drives :)

There might be a problem with the drive... this would be a good time to back up anything important :) I'm not sure how to test this type of thing further.
 
If you can get your hands on a copy of SpinRite 5.0, then you may wanna run that against the drive to check for problems. Otherwise, do what Rapmaster suggested and contact me for the software through the email in my signature.

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I doubt it is a virus.

I have on rare occasion seen where the BIOS forgets what type of HD you have, sometimes just having the BIOS redetect your hard drive will solve the problem. try it, it won't hurt
 
my bios is setupped so that every time i turn on my computer it will automatically detect the hard drive

the problem now is when i turn on my computer, the bios cannot detect my hard drive
 
Have you tried unplugging and immediately repluggin in both ends ot the IDE cable. some time they oxidize and end up with a bad connection.
 
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