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| Thread ID: 44316 | 2004-04-15 10:22:00 | Has my HDD died? | Curly (487) | Press F1 |
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| 229437 | 2004-04-15 10:22:00 | I have a Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 8 40 gig HDD, which yesterday started producing a HDD Failed message on boot. I took the drive out, made it a slave and mounted it into another computer. On boot it showed as being detected as the slave drive (which it is set to) , with the correct name etc, but just before the boot process ended, the HDD failure message returned. As the primary HDD is fine and works well on it's own, how come this maybe faulty drive can cause the error? BIOS is set to boot from the other Maxtor drive, a 10 gig drive, set as master and therefore, as far as I am aware, the system should not be even trying the 40 gig maxtor set as slave. Take out the 40 gig Maxtor slave and the computer boots fine. I accept the 40 gig drive is possibly dead but I do not understand how this can effect the boot process. Any comments appreciated. Oh yeah, the drive is about 6 months old, but not sure I can find the proof of purchase docket :-( |
Curly (487) | ||
| 229438 | 2004-04-15 10:36:00 | If the failure involved the drive addressing in the HDD controller board on the drive, it would be responding across the master drive requests. Hence the reason. Or if the fault was in the data buffers, the same would occur. Or, 101 other similar events could cause the same thing. |
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| 229439 | 2004-04-16 08:20:00 | seen it happen........plug in a stuffed drive either as IDE1 master/slave or IDE2 master/slave or whereever and it'll quite likely prevent the good drive from bootin | drcspy (146) | ||
| 229440 | 2004-04-16 14:44:00 | mate, your hard-drive is just in blues. its a dead-set !! dont waste your time | sharvil_nz (5529) | ||
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