unknown hard error

[Karl]

A couple of days ago I was working in XP PRO and started
up an office document when my computer completely froze.
No errors, no bsod, ctrl+alt+del had no response, alt+f4
no response, but the HDD light on my computer case was
one but there was no flashing to it, it was just solid. I
had to use the "restart" button on my tower to reboot,
but when it did, during the boot sequence, bios was
unable to find my harddrive.

I rebooted (ctrl+alt+del, worked now) and went into the
bios and looked at my boot options, and bios froze for
about 10 seconds, then displayed my harddrive. So I
rebooted and when the Windows Splash screen appeared, it
when to blue screen with "Unknown Hard Error" and the HDD
light on my case was solid again.

I took the drive out and put it in another computer (as a
slave) but even that one had trouble finding it.

Any ideas on this? My HD completely fried?

Thanks all, sorry for the long post!

Karl

 

[Menno Hershberger]

A couple of days ago I was working in XP PRO and started
up an office document when my computer completely froze.
No errors, no bsod, ctrl+alt+del had no response, alt+f4
no response, but the HDD light on my computer case was
one but there was no flashing to it, it was just solid. I
had to use the "restart" button on my tower to reboot,
but when it did, during the boot sequence, bios was
unable to find my harddrive.

I rebooted (ctrl+alt+del, worked now) and went into the
bios and looked at my boot options, and bios froze for
about 10 seconds, then displayed my harddrive. So I
rebooted and when the Windows Splash screen appeared, it
when to blue screen with "Unknown Hard Error" and the HDD
light on my case was solid again.

I took the drive out and put it in another computer (as a
slave) but even that one had trouble finding it.

Any ideas on this? My HD completely fried?

Durn near it!
If you can make it run long enough on the second computer to copy off
all your important data, that's what you'd better do... fast. Then go for
a new hard drive and reinstall.