ok, what have I missed???

[polly tito]

system boots straight to

"non-system disk, please insert...etc"

insert boot disk, C: 'invalid drive'

remove hard drive and configure in separate machine as secondary master, xp
detects new hard drive, correctly identifying it as a fujitsu but it doesn't
appear.

Drive can be heard spinning up with none of the normal thermal calibration
error noises

ok, duff drive I think, being a belt and braces sort of bloke I put it back
into it's own case and boot from PC-check

all HDD tests passed???

being suspicious I reboot from seagate tools and run the generic test - all
passed???

rebbot from boot disc, C: - invalid drive

back into spare machine, still not visible (on both master and CS jumper
settings)

ok, I must have missed something obvious here

anybody???

polly

 

[Rod Speed]

system boots straight to
"non-system disk, please insert...etc"
insert boot disk, C: 'invalid drive'

Usually seen when the boot code cant see what
looks like a bootable partition on the drive.

Thats an active primary dos partition.

remove hard drive and configure in separate machine
as secondary master, xp detects new hard drive,
correctly identifying it as a fujitsu but it doesn't appear.

Usually seen when there is no formatted partition on the drive.
It will be visible in the Device Manager and Disk Management
but not in My Computer etc.

Drive can be heard spinning up with none of
the normal thermal calibration error noises

The recalibrations heard with a faulty drive arent
thermal recalibrations, they are recalibrations done
when the drive cant read the data off the platters.

ok, duff drive I think, being a belt and braces sort of bloke
I put it back into it's own case and boot from PC-check

all HDD tests passed???

Thats just testing the physical drive, not that there is a
properly formatted and loaded active primary dos partition.

being suspicious I reboot from seagate tools
and run the generic test - all passed???
Ditto.

rebbot from boot disc, C: - invalid drive

You'll get that if it isnt partitioned and formatted.

back into spare machine, still not visible
(on both master and CS jumper settings)

ok, I must have missed something obvious here

Yep. You just dont have it partitioned and formatted most likely.

 

[Paul L]

while you have it in the other pc, run fdisk and see if it can read the
drive info

or boot from a startup floppy or cd and check it in it's own machine

 

[Alien Zord]

system boots straight to

"non-system disk, please insert...etc"

insert boot disk, C: 'invalid drive'

remove hard drive and configure in separate machine as secondary master, xp
detects new hard drive, correctly identifying it as a fujitsu but it doesn't
appear.

Drive can be heard spinning up with none of the normal thermal calibration
error noises

ok, duff drive I think, being a belt and braces sort of bloke I put it back
into it's own case and boot from PC-check

all HDD tests passed???

being suspicious I reboot from seagate tools and run the generic test - all
passed???

rebbot from boot disc, C: - invalid drive

back into spare machine, still not visible (on both master and CS jumper
settings)

ok, I must have missed something obvious here

It wouldn't be a Fujitsu MPG series drive, would it?

 

[polly tito]

many thanks, yes, the partition had been wiped

when I was younger, and had more hair, I would have thought of that

fdisked,setpart,format and all is fine

<It wouldn't be a Fujitsu MPG series drive, would it?>

I think it maybe although belarc doesn't pull that info up and I don't want
to pull it out again...

do tell

polly

 

[Alien Zord]

<It wouldn't be a Fujitsu MPG series drive, would it?>

I think it maybe although belarc doesn't pull that info up and I don't want
to pull it out again...

do tell

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27109.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27112.html

http://www.hddclassactionsettlement.com/
Read the 3rd paragraph. I've had 9 of them failed in customer's machines and
2 in my own.

 

[Rod Speed]

many thanks, yes, the partition had been wiped

when I was younger, and had more hair, I would have thought of that

fdisked,setpart,format and all is fine

Thats always a problem with stuff you do rarely,
easy to forget the obvious when it shows up again.

Thats why heavy aircraft have proper checklists that
are used when the brown stuff hits the fan, so the
obvious aint overlooked with rarely seen situations.