Bad Hard Drive

[rogeepete]

ThanksI have a bad Maxtor hard drive that failed in Sept 2007 and I have
replaced it.
Nothing on it that is valuable. My BIOS will not recognize hard drive -
just my
3 1/2 floppy and my CD Rom drives. I can boot from my Win XP Pro cd and I
can see some files being loaded but in the end, Win will not run. Do you
know of any free (?) or inexpensive programs with which I could try to fix?

Thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

ThanksI have a bad Maxtor hard drive that failed in Sept 2007 and I have
replaced it.
Nothing on it that is valuable. My BIOS will not recognize hard drive -
just my
3 1/2 floppy and my CD Rom drives. I can boot from my Win XP Pro cd and I
can see some files being loaded but in the end, Win will not run. Do you
know of any free (?) or inexpensive programs with which I could try to
fix?

Thanks

If your BIOS won't recognise your hard drive then your
problem has nothing to do with Windows. A hardware
group would be the best place to ask your question.

 

[David Webb]

Since you replaced the drive back in Sept 2007, it must have been running
correctly until now. If that's the case, a defective drive would be suspected.
Is it still under warranty? Either way, it would be best to contact Maxtor tech
support for guidance.

 

[db.·.. >]

you might want to
double-check your
harddrive.

if the motherboard
doesn't see it then
maybe the harddrive
is not plugged in correctly
or the cable is frayed or
there is no power to the
drive.


-

db·´¯`·...¸><)))º>

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

It's fairly common to forget to connect the power cable. The first time one
does this it can be a real head-scratcher.

 

[Richard]

I had 2 Maxtor drives fail in less than 2 years. Check the Dell message
boards . Allot of people had the same problem.

 

[Colon Terminus]

It's fairly common to forget to connect the power cable. The first time
one does this it can be a real head-scratcher.

I've been in the IT business for more years than most people in this group
have been alive and I still sometimes forget to ... uhm ... uhm

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I've been in the IT business for more years than most people in this group
have been alive and I still sometimes forget to ... uhm ... uhm

Stop bragging. I did my first Fortran course in 1969. (grin)

 

[bg]

I have never had a machine that broke a drive recover....
spend less money on a new mobo, start over.
To realistically think out errors after a fast spinning 12volt hard drive
playing with magnets pukes over sata or pata cables the remnants of an
explosion we can’t see?

Yaya sayeth the pc god..get a new mobo... or a completely different chipset
to plugin new drives and remain doubtful

 

[Lem]

Fall of '63 here. Flunked it ;-(

Same time, different school ... the first computer language I learned
was MAD (http://tinyurl.com/5t6rqj) and then CAP, which was written in
FAP (http://tinyurl.com/6yf2tr). At my first job in '67 I used MAC
(long before Apple: http://tinyurl.com/5mnzln) and some lower-level
languages. I don't think I ever had much use for Fortran.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[Lem]

Are you sure?

I was at the University of Portland (OR) in the EE program then.

MIT EE '66

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm