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| 338785 | 2005-03-28 09:41:00 | I use XP Pro and have 2 hard drives in my computer. Since yesterday my computer wont access the primary hard drive. I go into bios and primary drive is listed as none and in trying to set bios on primary drive to auto and then saving changes to bios the setting for primary disk reverts to none. Does this indicate my primary drive is faulty and if so can the data on it be reterived to transfer to a new hard drive | norrol (2154) | ||
| 338786 | 2005-03-28 09:56:00 | A few basic things you can try: Check IDE cables are inserted properly. Go into BIOS again and reset all to defaults swap IDE cables between the drives and see if the old primary is still undetected |
Greg (193) | ||
| 338787 | 2005-03-28 10:13:00 | I use XP Pro and have 2 hard drives in my computer. Since yesterday my computer wont access the primary hard drive. I go into bios and primary drive is listed as none and in trying to set bios on primary drive to auto and then saving changes to bios the setting for primary disk reverts to none. Does this indicate my primary drive is faulty and if so can the data on it be reterived to transfer to a new hard drive Again insufficient information. Fully describe the computer system including any recent hardware alterations or additions or BIOS adjustments. Coherently describe the actions taken when configuring BIOS and screen messages during the subsequent bootup. And describe how this current post relates to: pressf1.co.nz and pressf1.co.nz Quote For The Week People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do - Anonymous |
merlin (256) | ||
| 338788 | 2005-03-28 10:42:00 | Again insufficient information . Fully describe the computer system including any recent hardware alterations or additions or BIOS adjustments . Coherently describe the actions taken when configuring BIOS and screen messages during the subsequent bootup . And describe how this current post relates to: . co . nz/showthread . php?t=56100" target="_blank">pressf1 . co . nz and . co . nz/showthread . php?t=56117" target="_blank">pressf1 . co . nz Quote For The Week People who think they know everything are very irritating to those of us who do - Anonymous Yep he sure seems to have endless problems with hard drives . . . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 338789 | 2005-03-28 11:32:00 | What else can I tell you. My computer has 2 hard drives 1 x 40gb 1x 80gb. my computer wont reconise the 40gb drive and in the bios it says primary drive none secondary drive auto and the 40gb drive isnt reconised. In going into bios and changing the primary drive to read auto and then saving changes it reverts back to once again say in bios primary drive none. in a nut shell if a computer doesnt reconise a hard drive that has been in this unit for over 2 years and has never caused any trouble before does this indicate a problem with the primary hard drive.I have installed XP Pro in a small partition on the secondary drive to enable windows to work. | norrol (2154) | ||
| 338790 | 2005-03-28 11:54:00 | Did you try what Greg suggested? Check all plugs are connected and also try swapping the connector around on the IDE cable? Your hard drive manufacturer normally will have a diagnostic utility you can run off a floppy (or CD sometimes) which can check the health of the drive outside windows. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 338791 | 2005-03-29 12:43:00 | Thanks to all those who offered suggestions and today I removed the 40gb hard drive and had a computer repair shop test it with the result the hard drive has developed a major fault and its place is now in the rubbish bin as it wont now work so the 40gb of info it contained is gone forever. O well start again I guess and a lesson learned back up everything when all I had backed up on this drive was the first of the 4 partitions only | norrol (2154) | ||
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