Re: Problem!!! Hardware? Or Software?
- From: jonah <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:03:31 +0000
On 2 Jan 2006 17:20:39 -0800, "Mikie" <francisco9@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi, This has been my worst dayyet, since having been into computers
>from my first one, the TRS 80, back in the early 80's! Then a
>commodore and then an Apple IIe, then the famous PC!!
>
>BOTH of my internal 40g HDD's went south today, in one sitting. What
>preceeded it was my External USB HDD which could not be accessed as it
>didn't show in My Computer. It did , however, show in Device Manager!
>Grrrr!, As an aside I connected it to a second Dell 2400 desktop, and
>it worked fine. SO..it was obviously a software issue.
>
>Today, another software issue.. or therare occasions of BOTH HDD's
>going bad????
>
>One of my internal HDD's went south. I kept seeing the error message,
>PRESS F1 to Reboot or F2 to enter SETUP. It showed that NONE of my
>HDD's was present. ANYWHERE!! I checked all the connections, the
>jumper settings, the proper location of the Master and Slave positions
>of the data cable, including the possibility of a kink in the IDE data
>cable. Nothing. It has been a year since I last reformatted, and
>reloaded WIN XP Home! So ? Why not? I did, but it didn't change
>anything. After those 39 plus famous minutes, Same old, Same
>Old....Press F1 to Reboot......
>
>I pulled that HDD and tried the second one, changing the jumper
>settings, etc. Same identical problem. I spent the whole day trying to
>find the problem! Finally, on BOTH HDD's, the dreaded white print on
>blue background. I pulled both drives AND the PC off my desk and
>started using my other PC which works fine, andso does the USB
>Exterior HDD!! BUT, the TWO errant HDD's from the first PC would not
>work in the second PC..same BIOS, Same OP SYS, same everything. Same
>problem.
>
>But , my question, before I remand both drives to their final resting
>place as door stops, (no warranty left), what can I do to possibly
>salvage them? They both can' t have died on the same day! There MUST
>be something I can try! I don't have any Diagnosis Software..are there
>any that would help??
>
>Help someone, Please? The thought of buying two, or even one new
>drive sends shivvers up my Christmas Credit Card laden spine
>
>HELP Please? Mikie
>From what I have interpreted the problem started when you added an
exterior HDD now none will work?
Apart from a disk checker from the manufactorer it may be better too
do a low level format and re-initialise both disks then install XP.
Get the utilitiy fro the manufactorer assuming you use Deskstar or
Maxtor go to the Maxtor site and get Powermax Disk Utilities -
Deskstar don't provide one any more but Maxtors' works fine on
deskstar disks so it may work on others as well. Dunno - you got
nothing to lose now anyway.
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/View%20By%20Category/Desktop%20Storage/DiamondMax%20Family/Diagnostics&downloadID=113
Jonah
.
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