Bios cant find hard drive

Hello
I have a problem with my tinkpad. I would like to reinstall windows, but my bios can't recodnise my hard drive anymore. But if I boot from an linux cd (like knoppix) I found the harddrive and can read and writ on it. (So it is no hardware problem).
Is there a tool with wish I can fix my bios.
The erroer occured when I tryed to boot Window, but swished the power off during that.
I have Windos XP profesional on my machine.
Thanks for you help.
(I can not get my original CDs as I am working Oversee at the moment. If there is a tool around to fix that problem, it would be nice if somebody could give me the download link. )
Ruth
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Hi Ruth,
Ja kannst Du. Falls es nicht funktioniert, gehst Du wieder zurück in compatability und den „Intel Matrix Storage Driver“ für Deinen TP hier holen. (TP selektieren und auf Hard Drive klicken, der richtigen Treiber soll sofort zu sehen sein). Bitte die Anweisungen genau lesen.
S-ATA ist schneller als P-ATA (Datentransferrate).
Gruß
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