You see a hard disk drive error when you start your system.

Run SETUP and check that your system is auto-sensing the correct drive type. If SETUP cannot automatically detect the hard disk drive type or displays information that does not match your drive, you may need to define your own drive type. See “Defining your own drive type” in Chapter 2.

Make sure the jumpers on the system board are set correctly. Jumper JP25 enables or disables the PCI IDE hard disk drive controller. See “Changing the Jumper Settings” in Chapter 4 for more information.

Make sure the jumpers on the hard disk drive are set correctly. See the documentation that came with the drive for more information.

You are unable to store data on the hard disk drive.

Make sure your hard disk drive has space available for storing data.

Also, if the hard disk drive has been in a power-saving mode, make sure the drive has had time to achieve its full operating speed before you try to write data to it.

You have been using your hard disk drive successfully for some time but notice a reduction in performance.

The data on the disk may have become fragmented. Back up all your data and use a disk optimization utility to reorganize the files on your disk.

If you are using MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, check that your PCI IDE driver is installed and loaded. (See “Installing the PCI IDE Drivers” in Chapter 2.)

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