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| Thread ID: 45941 | 2004-06-08 00:00:00 | Where has my Hard Drive gone? | Jackiex (4951) | Press F1 |
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| 242632 | 2004-06-08 00:00:00 | I have an additional hard drive that has stopped working. When booting my machine the light on my removable drive lights up and the HDD also shows up in the BIOS. When XP completes loading and I go into my computer it fails to show in the HDD directory? |
Jackiex (4951) | ||
| 242633 | 2004-06-08 01:11:00 | Is the removable drive connected by USB? If so, I would remove it, reboot and then reconnect it. This should allow Windows to identify the hardware being connected and load the appropriate drivers if it needs to. |
antmannz (28) | ||
| 242634 | 2004-06-08 01:27:00 | It is an internal IDE drive that is in a removable tray. I have tried rebooting with no luck |
Jackiex (4951) | ||
| 242635 | 2004-06-08 06:23:00 | Check that the partition structure is still correct. USe some DOS tool like Partition Magic to see if the partitions are still useable. If nothing, try the disc checking tool from the manufacturers website. | kiki (762) | ||
| 242636 | 2004-06-08 06:28:00 | I know the ones. You can (or could) get them from Dick Smiths. From what I remember of them, the key has to be in the "locked" position before the drive will work. Also, it may pay to open up the tray and have a look to make sure the cable from the hard drive to the tray is secure. Ditto for inside the PC; make sure the cable from the tray receptacle to the motherboard is secure. One other thing: if the tray has been inserted or removed while the PC has been running there is a good chance that the hard disk has been toasted. |
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