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| Thread ID: 34312 | 2003-06-09 11:17:00 | urgent help please | phylip (1886) | Press F1 |
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| 151303 | 2003-06-09 11:17:00 | my friend brought around his computer to see if we can get if running i booted from boot cd but there in no c: drive even i tried fdisk but it says there are no mounted drives please help thanks |
phylip (1886) | ||
| 151304 | 2003-06-09 11:49:00 | Go into the BIOS and see if it has one shown. depending on the age of the computer, it may have an auto-detect menu. Also check inside that there is a hard drive and that the plugs are pushed fully in (with the grey one check both ends. Do this while it is turned off at the wall. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 151305 | 2003-06-09 11:52:00 | i went into bios and did auto detect but it didnt find any | phylip (1886) | ||
| 151306 | 2003-06-09 11:59:00 | Does the disk light show any activity when you start the machine up? can you hear the hard drive spin up? | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 151307 | 2003-06-09 12:03:00 | Hard disks do fail. If the autodetect in the BIOS doesn't find it then check all cables. It IS possible the H/D is dead but check cables first. If the cable has fallen out the the BIOS won't detect it. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 151308 | 2003-06-09 12:06:00 | Sorry, gotta go...wife is kicking me. If you can borrow another drive and it auto detects OK, then it looks like a dead hard drive. Basically, the BIOS interigates the electronics on the hard drive to see what type it is. So an operating system is not needed at this stage. Its when the computer boots past the initial screen that the operating system inquires of the BIOS what the drive is. So you see that if you can't see it in the Bios, then either the hard drive is faulty or the motherboard IDE port is faulty. Hope I have given you enough info to diagnose. Night all. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 151309 | 2003-06-09 12:34:00 | thanks for all your help guys i got an old hard drive from an old system of mine and plugged it in and it booted up so guess its time to ditch the hard drive thanks again for all your help phill |
phylip (1886) | ||
| 151310 | 2003-06-10 23:48:00 | you may have to set the HDD Cylinder (C) Head(H) Sector(S) manually in the BIOS. You don't mention if the HDD starts up without the IDE cable attached on boot up. A while back some of the Seagate HDD's had to be set manually depending on the MOBO. | Te tuhi (3977) | ||
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