Wierd problem w/ my BIOS, not detecting my HDD

So one day, I decide to see just how far my CPU would overclock. I started at 140MHz and worked my way down...None of them worked until I hit 133.
Then, as I decided to go through a full boot-up, the post-POST check pauses on "Detecting Primary Master", then doesn't detect it. It detects my slave, the 20GB Seagate, but not my master, the 10GB WD.
So, I reboot and enter my BIOS. Nothing out of the ordinary except the lack of a Primary Master and the boot sequence has been shifted for my slave, which didn't have an OS on it.
It looked as follows:
Primary Master: None
Primary Slave: ST80...
and the CD-ROMs are fine.
So I select the Primary Master, PM, and I change it to "Auto" then go over to the detailed description of the PM, where you change the # of heads, platters, cylinders, blah blah blah...
So here's the wierd part. It showed up fine! No problems whatsoever. It read "WDC#####" at the top.
So everything looks fine, and I reboot.
The after POST boot sector check fails again! It reads nothing for the PM, and I get an error message that says "Primary Master faill, press F1 to continue or DEL to enter setup"
So, I finally had to reinstall Windows on my slave, and that's where I'm at now! Ugh.

Sounds like that old 10GB just decided it was time to give up the ghost. Is the drive spinning up when you boot?, do you hear any noise from it at all?

You could try Mr. G's freezer trick if there is data on there you really need. Know though, its a one shot deal and may or may not work.

There is important info on there. Like an incomplete download of UT2k3...99.9% done.

I loaded setup defaults, everything's normal in the BIOS...

/me cries

No way can I lose this drive.

Bad news. Now I can't even get the BIOS to detect it.

Maybe I should flash? Would that help?

I'll only use MrG's freezer trick if there's no other alternative, as a last resort...

Geez, how stupid am I...Turns out one of the things I changed before losing my HDD was the IDE cable. I put the length of it between my two hard drives, the plug that was supposed to connect to my system board was on my WD...

The drive is all up and running now. No problems at all.
I think I might have lost some hair over the stress, but otherwise...

I know what I'm gonna get for Christmas! (new HD) A WD one, probably, for the one I have's been working great for 3+ years , it's actually the first HD I had.

Thanks for all your help, guys.

Phew!

/me hugs his WD drive

You are too young to be losing your hair....

But I am glad that you got it fixed =D

lmao that is so funny!! Why u might ask?! Because I did the very same thing once lol. Glad I am not the only one ;-) I think it can happen to the best of us..