hard drive prolems wierd!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

Ok i have an 80 gb ata 100, (my slave hard drive) recently it got wierd...
when i start it up it won't boot but you can hear it spinning.... but
sometimes when it does read it doesnt boot up and ask for boot up disk??? is
it corrupted or something?? The screen where it loads everything (hard
drive, cd drives, etc......) it only shows my ata 100 40gb hard drive now,
why is this?? HELP HELP!!

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

So the operating system is on the 40 gig hard drive?

The drive is bad and is not available to the bios. Therefore the computer
will not boot.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Richard Urban [MVP]]

Oops. Misread your post. You CAN see the 40 gig drive after all.

Which drive is the primary drive? Which is the slave. Are they jumpered
accordingly? Which drive do you have the operating system installed to?

Please supply as much information as you can about the drives, their
jumpers, their setup etc.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Harkhof]

So the operating system is on the 40 gig hard drive?

The drive is bad and is not available to the bios. Therefore the computer
will not boot.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

I would first try changing the data cable. If you see no change, the drive
manufacturer's website may have free diagnostic software you can run from a
bootable CD or floppy. WD & maxtor definitely do. This is all assuming that
your jumpers are correctly placed.

Hark

 

[Yves Leclerc]

If you tried to replace the ATA cable and you are still having this problem,
the your drive will fail at any momment! You better consider replacing soon
and take a backup of you important files, emails and address book.