Re: Error message on System
- From: "thecreator" <thecreator@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 00:10:24 -0400
Hi Ceowin,
And this ribbon you're saying is the
belt-like one that came with the hard drive right?
No, not belt like. Did you replace the Hard Drive yourself? If you did, you know exactly what I am talking about. I looked it up here:
http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/installation_guides/ata_installation_guide.pdf Page 10 of the PDF Manual.
The cable I am referring to is called an ATA Interface Cable. One end goes to the Hard Drive, then there is a Slave connector and finally the Blue Connector plugs into the Connector on the Motherboard.
If this cable was not replaced at the time you installed the replacement Hard Drive, then it is going to be possible that the operating system is corrupt now. But if you reinstall the operating system without checking the ATA Interface Cable, it is quite possible that the fresh installation of the operating system, will be corrupt within a week or two of Hard use, again.
Before you look at the Cable and start pulling on them, make sure that you have a replacement handy. Why? I had to replace a Cable, because sometimes it's hard removing the cable from the motherboard connector.
Print out the errors you posted and show them to your technician.
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thecreator
"Ceowin" <Ceowin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:36A6416B-6C7F-46D8-A718-881D5D275275@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ok just one last verification. My local technician is insisting that it.
really is a system corruption. However, he's never seen this Disk read error
message ever. Also recently, I haven't done anything yet to the cables, I got
error messages saying Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device or Insert Boot
Media in selected Boot device.
Is this also caused by the Ribbon? And this ribbon you're saying is the
belt-like one that came with the hard drive right? Because if I replace it
and it still does these crazy things, then the technician would just push it
saying I was wrong and he was right...
Lots of thanks thecreator!
"thecreator" wrote:
Hi Ceowin,
You have two IDE Channels on the motherboard? You have two Data Ribbon Cables attached? Replace the Data Ribbon Cable going to the Replacement Hard Drive and the CD. The Ribbon Cable to replace is the one connected to the Primary IDE Channel.
You might also want to make sure that the connector is properly seated in the motherboard IDE Connector. HardDrive0 refers to the Primary IDE Channel Hard Drive.
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thecreator
"Ceowin" <Ceowin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8BB251AE-E2A4-4C84-9A2E-731DDEA9C742@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If it were indeed the IDE Cable that was damaged, shouldn't I not be able to
get into Windows XP at all? When I successfully get in, the rest of the day
the computer works.
"thecreator" wrote:
Replace the Data Ribbon Cable. In replacing the Hard Drive, you might have damaged the Cable. Especially true, if both the Hard Drive and CD Drive are both on the same Cable.
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thecreator
"Ceowin" <Ceowin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:EA902D12-8988-456D-9D1F-DBB1950B4251@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
By the way, in between these disk errors, there's also one that says the
source was from atapi. What does that mean? Here's a copy:
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