Re: Missing Drives
From: Armand Hammer (mrgrocery_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/03/04
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:02:54 -0600
Thanks, a power supply issue had crossed my mind. Its an older case(power
supply about 2 years old) with new everything else. It is working now, but
who knows what will happen tomorrow.
"Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:%23TLKWfReEHA.1732@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> This isn't really a batter issue, but a power issue to the hard drive.
> If the hard drive doesn't initialize, then it won't be readable by the
> computer. I think the real problem is the power supply, but being only
> six months old, you should be able to get everything covered under
> warrenty if it is an OEM machine. If you built it, you may want to try
> a different PSU if possible.
>
> ----
> Nathan McNulty
>
>
> Armand Hammer wrote:
> > Never. It is only six months old so I never considered it.
> >
> > "Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@MSN.com> wrote in message
> > news:ebA7EdNeEHA.3520@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >
> >>When's was the battery on the motherboard last changed?
> >>
> >>"Armand Hammer" <mrgrocery@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >>news:%236IKORNeEHA.1644@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >>
> >>>My computer has two hard drives(connected as master slave) and a cdrom
> >
> > and
> >
> >>>dvd-r(connected as master/slave)Up until this morning my computer
worked
> >>
> >>as
> >>
> >>>well as any Windows Computer can be expected to work. Used it, went
for
> >>>breakfast, came back and it said it could not find NTLDR and to it
> >>>ctrl-alt-del. This of course causes it to reboot. Checked in the BIOS
> >>
> >>and
> >>
> >>>1 of my hard drives as well as my CD and DVD drives are missing. The
> >
> > only
> >
> >>>drive I can find in the BIOS is the drive I use for storage. I know
the
> >>>reason for the NTLDR error is because it can't find the hard drive with
> >>>windows on it. I have seen this happen before when a hard drive has
> >>>crashed, but why am I losing the CD and DVD drives?
> >>>
> >>>Since this morning the computer is working sometimes(some times booting
> >>
> >>up,
> >>
> >>>sometimes giving the NTLDR error). I have decided to turn it off until
> >
> > I
> >
> >>>have a better idea of what is wrong. Thanks in advance.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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