Re: Disk Boot Failure, but Hard Drive is fine.

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thecreator wrote:
Hi abright52,

Questions:
1. - Did you check the jumpers on the Hard Drive, according to the sticker
on the Hard Drive for setting up Master, Slave or Cable Select
configuration?

It is set to Master


2. - When you formatted the Hard Drive, did you do the Slow Format or the
Quick Re-Format of the Hard Drive?


Slow Format

3. - Did you search the Internet, before posting to this group?

Yep

http://www.highergroundsoftware.com/keywordpages/dbf.htm


Pretty expensive for a HD Utility

http://service.ap.dell.com/ap/step/1,,139+24365+17470,00.html

Already covered those basic steps.

This is probably the best site that I found:
http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/booterrGBER13-c.html

Unfortunately it wasn't any help.


4. - Can you replace the CPU Processor and redo the Format? If the CPU was
damaged, you won't be able to tell, if you don't try a new one? Everything
that gets written to the Hard Drive, may not be corrupted, but every Hard
Drive you tried, was formatted with the same CPU and memory sticks
installed.


I would rather not do that, as I don't have a spare P4 or Celeron
Processor. Typically processor problems are more apparant. I have ran
tests on the Processor and it passed with flying colors.

5. - Have you tried taking a working Hard Drive from another system, that
boots and temporary install it in the computer you are working on and see if
it boots up?

That is about a one-in-a-million chance of working. Unless I found
another computer with the same motherboard, I would immediately get
errors.
I will try it, though, I will report back with the results later.

.

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