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| 343825 | 2005-04-11 11:01:00 | Hello, Another friend is having hard drive problems, that’s giving me a head ache. The system is a HP Pavilion 6616, Celeron 566MHz, 64RAM, Windows 98se, it comes with a system recovery disk, but it’s not detecting the hard drive. The hard drive is a Maxtor (2F030L0) 30GB drive. The hard drive is detected in the BIOS. But during the POST test I get the message "WARNING 0200: Failure Fixed Disk 0". However when I use the system recovery disk it suggests me to use a boot disk and use FDISK to repartition it. When I try using FDISK from a Boot Disk I get the error "No fixed disks present." I have tried using different hard drives with no luck, different IDE cables, checked Maxtor website for the correct Jumper Settings. I have set the hard drive to Primary Master. It worked with a Seagate 4GB, but that’s too small so want to try a bigger hard drive. Also have tried a Maxtor 20GB with the same results. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, |
Sleepy (7202) | ||
| 343826 | 2005-04-11 11:12:00 | Yes, but have you actually downloaded and used the manufacturers diagnostic tools. maxtor website (http://www.maxtor.com/). Look for Maxblast. Alternatively, HP may have their own diagnostic tools with a Hard Drive test component to it. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 343827 | 2005-04-11 11:17:00 | Yes, but have you actually downloaded and used the manufacturers diagnostic tools. maxtor website (http://www.maxtor.com/). Look for Maxblast. Alternatively, HP may have their own diagnostic tools with a Hard Drive test component to it. Oh cool thanks, didn't know maxtor had software diagnostic tools, never thought of that. I'll try that and get back to everyone. Nope had a look on HP's website they don't have any diagnostic tools, just drivers. |
Sleepy (7202) | ||
| 343828 | 2005-04-11 17:11:00 | Oh cool thanks, didn't know maxtor had software diagnostic tools, never thought of that. I'll try that and get back to everyone. Nope had a look on HP's website they don't have any diagnostic tools, just drivers. Nope no luck with the maxtor software diagnostic tool, didn't detect the Hard Drive at all. |
Sleepy (7202) | ||
| 343829 | 2005-04-11 17:55:00 | Nope no luck with the maxtor software diagnostic tool, didn't detect the Hard Drive at all. try and set it as a secondary and see if it works, thats wat i did with mine... switch both of the things of to secondary component and that should work, umm. i aint completly sure if you told wat OS is he running (not that, that matters cuz it should work either way) | TINY (7596) | ||
| 343830 | 2005-04-11 22:00:00 | Check the HDD on your PC. If it works, then the IDE on the motherboard on the HP is probably stuffed. | pctek (84) | ||
| 343831 | 2005-04-11 22:06:00 | Umm have any of these ide cables you've tried got a blue connection at one end by any chance?? The blue end HAS to be connected to the mobo ide connection. It'll NOT work, if u plug the blue end into the hdd connection. |
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