Hardware Is it possible to use an External Hard Drive as a Hard disk drive?

[Artlav]

Be advised that reflashing BIOS carelessly may turn the computer into a wall decoration.

 

[ky]

Not for the password but for the hard drive message.I might ask my cousin for help, he knows how to diagnose as well as fix problems with computers.

 

[garyw]

Hold on a minute. You are confusing me. You posted about a BIOS upgrade in the same post you referred to a password issue yet you are expecting the firmware upgrade to fix a hard drive message?

huh?

Slow down. One step, one problem at a time.

Does the changelist for the BIOS upgrade mention fixing issues with erronous hard drive messages?

 

[ky]

No it doesnt.And my cousin said that the computer might not be able to support a ard drive this large so he is going to get me a 40GB one instead.and the diskette problem might be because I had the floppy disk out.

 

[Loru]

somewhere in BIOS there should be option called "Boot up floppy seek" - turning it off will disable this warning message.

 

[ky]

Ok I guess this problem is over so thanks for all the suggesstions and solutions!

 

[Keatah]

What fixed your problem?

 

[ky]

My cousin installing a hard drive that works with the computer.