after clean install: PC cant find 2 internal HD's

[Peterwolfe]

had a severe attack from win32Heur virus/trojan and decided for a clean install. Went well, but I saw that the 2 internal hd's werent recognised....is it possible that the virus has infected the motherboard? In the bios I see changes too, no 2 internal hd's, c:\ is all of a sudden first slave and dvdrom primary master...need some tough advise...are so fed up with it....got the infection back again and have only visited MS update...

specs: AMD Athlon 64, 3200+, 3Gb RAM, XP+SP3, XP Firewall and AVG free version 8.5. D-Link wireless adapter...IE8

[patio]

It is extremely rare if possible at all to get an infection in the BIOS so i doubt highly if this is the case here.
Did you remember to re-install your MBoard chipset drivers ? ?
Try hooking up one of the internals to another machine to see if they are recognised...

[Peterwolfe]

yup, updated the lot...

[Peterwolfe]

somebody told me to do something with the jumpers, put them all on cable select??+++

[Peterwolfe]

well,  case solved....disconnected the HD's and was looking for the jumpers, easy but more pins than I liked, so I connected them all again to look on the net for info on these WD HD's and when started up, the chip said: found 2 more HD's...lol

What bothers me is why this happened...I had some attacks from win32 heur virus but everybody tells me that is no MB virus...anybody any idea?

[patio]

Somehow the jumpers were changed at one point in time...

[Peterwolfe]

yeah, by a GHOST? Billy Gates' ghost???.. hahahahahahahaha. , sorry but that doesnt help...hahahahahahahahaha