Re: Is my hard drive gone?
- From: Ron Martell <ron.martell@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:40:41 -0700
"Konstantin Loguinov" <stillsuperk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Not sure if it belongs into this newsgroup, but here is my problem.
>Yesterday we had a big storm and after I got home, I found one of my
>computers off (weird, I thought it was plugged into a backup, but I
>digress). I switched it on and it took a loooooooooooong time to boot up.
>After it finally booted up, everything seems to work fine except for one
>thing - my Windows XP Pro doesn't see the second hard drive. The second hard
>drive is connected to an IDE controller. When I boot up my computer, it
>recognizes a 200 GB drive connected to the controller. When I go to Manage
>under My Computer, I can see both hard drives under Disk Drives and the IDE
>controller seems to be working fine under SCSI and RAID Controllers.
>However, when I go to Disk Management, it takes forever to come up and when
>it does come up, the second hard drive isn't there. Oh, and when I go to
>command prompt and try to do diskpart, it thinks for a while and comes back
>with the "the disk management services could not complete the operation"
>error.
>
>What are the chances that my second hard drive is toast?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Konstantin
>
Go to the second hard drive manufacturer's website and download their
free diagnostic utility. Boot your computer with disk/CD created from
the download and run the tests on the drive.
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
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