Vista troubles

[tbn.al]

I have a problem. Repairing Vista has screwed up my hard drive. This may get a bit to tedious to be out in the open on this board but I might get and answer and someone else might learn something.

Last year I bought a Dell 530 Vista 64 bit primarily to run Sibelius. It didn't have enough USB's so I installed a plug n play SATA card for a backup hard drive. The card installed another bios and disabled the OEM phoenix bios. I think the card failed and the computer wouldn't boot because the new bios wouldn't work without the card. After arguing with the no help desk from the card company, iomega, I took their advice to use the Vista repair function to get the computer to boot. I was not hopeful but gave it a shot mostly to shut them up and get them to tell me how to disable their bios. The repair program for Vista ran for 44 hours without a break until a thunderstorm shut it down. The hard drive cannot be recognized by VIsta now. I tried to use the adapter that I used to copy my critical files over to my laptop before I started all this and it won't even recognize the hard drive. At this point I think I may as well buy a new hard drive and start over. Any thoughts. And don't anyone send me the premises address for iomega in CA. It's better if I don't know.

[TUBAD83]

Have you tried the F2 (Setup) function yet? If not, try it and reset bios to factory default. If that does not work, try this:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4843572_reinstall-bios.html" target="_blank" target="_blank

If you're still having problems, PM me.

JJ

[tbn.al]

Thanks for the reply Jerry. I discovered that this one was still under waranty. I am surprised because I never buy waranties. This one was a special sale at Best Buy that included their extended waranty at no additional cost. It is now with the Geek Squad being redone. Fortunately I have 2 excellent backups. I can attest to one fact. The message that appears during Windows repair means exactly what it says. If you turn off the computer, or lose power, during the repair process dire consequences will result.