Reinstalling My Hard Drive, I deleted it by mistake

[caraloca]

Hi, I was installing a dvd burner from another pc to this one, so I decide to remove all the cdroms and drives in the device properties and leave only this dvd burner.
I close my pc and when I try to start win xp i can not . i guess one of those drivers was my HD.
it just said 'wait" then it said that my drives are not atp compatible, then tell me to press "home", i do that and it start to count up to 50 and then restart.
Before also when I just to start my pc I had a chance to enter my bios but not anymore.
I guess i have to get in the bios to make my motherboard recognize my Hd, right?, but how can I get there now or what should I do?.
I have an amd duron 1300mhz, 1012mb, win xp pro.
Any idea?.

[scouse]

You did not need to do it that way, all you had to do is take a cd drive out and swap it with dvd drive reboot and Xp would of recognoised it.

Even deleting anything from device properties is ok because when you reboot it recognises devices again, so i am unsure what has gone wrong with your computer. When you boot up what exactly do you see on the screen? also have you tried hitting F8 when you boot up the comp that will tatke you into your Bios.

Your hard drive does not need a driver as such as Xp sees it. have you messed with any jumpers? did you make sure the jumper in the back of the dvd drive is set correct?

what is on the cable with your hard drive? what exactly do you have in your computer as in cd rom drive dvd drive hard drive so on? and do you have them connected corectly? do you have all the jumpers set from master to slave?

[caraloca]

Hi, I know I did not have to do that but I do not know, I was having problems with ths dvd writer that I though to install it from cero, anyway I fixed already.
I let the hd by itself and I was able to go in the bios setup, there I saw that the hd was not detected so I press f3 to detect it and it did, then I saved and exit and close my pc, then I made the mistake to put the dvd in the second ide as master, so when I started my pc it did not detected my hd again just the dvd, so I now put both (HD and DVD) in the same IDE. I run the bios again and press f3 again and now it recognized both.
It was such a simple thing, I was thinking that it was better to put both in separate ide's, "HEY!! TWO MASTERS" I mean it sounds better, but i guess pcs are like real life you can have only bosses.
So that is what started all my problems, thinking like in an utopia where all were equals.
I better stop writing this.
thank you for your help and time

[scouse]

Hey glad you got it all sorted...