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| Thread ID: 40426 | 2003-12-07 20:13:00 | HDD died a horrible death?? | Mary H (769) | Press F1 |
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| 198212 | 2003-12-08 02:18:00 | before you do anything too dramatic.........get into the bios screen at the initial startup of the puter, (you'll maybe hve to hit 'del' key to do that) and make sure that the hard drive is set to 'auto' also make sure that the bios is set to 'defaults' ..............if you are lucky maybe soemthing has just stuffd up and you will be back up and running............otherwise you may need to identify what type of harddrive it is ........seagate/maxtor..etc etc and download a harddrive test program from teh makers site.........of course the program will not work unless the system recognized there is a hard drive actually there.....so try my first suggestions first | drcspy (146) | ||
| 198213 | 2003-12-08 03:19:00 | > ........seagate/maxtor..etc etc and download a > harddrive test program from teh makers > site.........of course the program will not work > unless the system recognized there is a hard drive > actually there... Excellent suggestion Perry but, actually the manufacturers diagnostic and setup utilities usually work off a bootable floppy or CD so the state of the HDD is irrelevent. Seagate, Seatools and DiskWizard for eg. Cheers Murray P |
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