HDD Woes

[Sonny]

Hello,

I have a Compaq Presario Laptop. Everything had been quite smooth
until yesterday. I started it in the morning and I got the message "No
system disk or disk error".

I booted from my CD-Rom using my Windows XP CD and it said it cannot
find a hard drive. I was convinced that my hard drive had died on me,
but i decided to take the computer with me at work, where we have a
lot of screwdrivers (the screws on mine are very specific), and plug
the hard drive out and then in, and see what happens.

When i arrived I turned my laptop on and windows started without any
problems. I kept using it for several hours. I was moving it, rebooted
several times and everything seemed okay. Then I took it back home and
when I turned it on again, I got the same "no system disk or disk
error message".

Oh, and also one of the times when it booted well, it crashed shortly
after loading windows, displaying some error with kernel.


I've been using this installation of Windows for more than 6 months
and I havent had any problems with it. Nor have I had problems with my
HDD or any other hardware.

Now, I am writing this on the very same computer. It turned on okay
today. Go figure.

Is my HDD dying on me, or it might be a windows problem?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,

thanks in advance

V. Ivanov

 

[CWatters]

Was it on mains power both at work and at home?

Could vibration in transit be causing an intermittant problem?

 

[Andy Lee]

I've been using this installation of Windows for more than 6 months
and I havent had any problems with it. Nor have I had problems with my
HDD or any other hardware.

Now, I am writing this on the very same computer. It turned on okay
today. Go figure.

Is my HDD dying on me, or it might be a windows problem?

Most likely the HD You do have backups of your data? If not do them
now. No System Disk is a common sign the the disk is not well and will
most likely die very soon

 

[OCZ Guy]

I get that from time to time, never had a dead drive, i just unfluged
the IDE connections and repluged them in fixed it EVERYTIME.

Try that before you go insane, unplug and reinstall from the mobo and
drive.

If that don't work try IDE2 before concluding the drive is dead.

 

[Sonny]

Could vibration in transit be causing an intermittant problem?

Yes, I believe that this is the issue. Is there anything that can be done about it?


"Andy Lee ([email protected]) wrote:"

Most likely the HD You do have backups of your data?

Done that already.



": OCZ Guy ([email protected]) wrote:"

I get that from time to time, never had a dead drive, i just unfluged
the IDE connections and repluged them in fixed it EVERYTIME.
Try that before you go insane, unplug and reinstall from the mobo and
drive.
If that don't work try IDE2 before concluding the drive is dead.

Sorry I have to ask but, how do you plug/unplug IDE and IDE connections?


regards,

V. Ivanov