My MicroStar 6119 (BX2)

thanks, i hope you can help me.

Is this a replacement disk or did it just stop being recognized? Have you made sure the jumpers on the disk are correctly set and all the cables properly attached? What exactly do you mean with not being recognized, is it the BIOS that can't see it?

yes the HD is jumpered correctly, but the board`s BIOS doesn`t recognize the large (80 GB) drive, so I thing the Bios schould be flashed with a newer version. The Board is Version 1.1

Do you use the latest BIOS version?
You need to update the BIOS to get support of such "big" drives in this machine.

you are right, but this is the problem, where can i get such an update and how to proceed it?

Maybe here: http://www.msi.com/product/mb/MS-6119.html#/?div=BIOS

Here's a Link:

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/MS-6119.html#/?div=BIOS

Is there a reason you need to keep such an old system alive?

rindi, I was faster than you ))))

I noticed that too...:)

yes, the reason is, I have some drives with saved files in a very old PC, there the processing unit (Pentium II) has end hiis life and took the former board with it. But I have the same processor once more which is running, only unfortunately an older board, with the problem I posted.

Apart from that, depending on what OS was installed on that disk, it may not load properly because of wrong drivers or the wrong HAL, or if it is an OEM OS you might not even be able start the OS and get into it.

Thanks for all, I think the adapting solution ist the best in my case. Have nice days.