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Really bizarre hard disk problem
Hopefully I'm explaining this good enough...
Friend's PC has a Fujitsu 20 Gb HD which is screwed from all I can determine. The PC does not recognize the HD anymore but I was able one time to get into it. When I did get in I did a scandisk, etc and found tons of bad sectors, confirming to me that in general the HD is on it's last legs. On restart the unit could no longer be seen again by the PC and I am unable to get it to see it anymore (I guess it was pure BS luck that I did see it once to begin with). I tried the HD in my own PC which powers on fine but it as well is unable to see the HD as either Master or Slave on both the Primary or Secondary connectors. So I took my 2 HDs (40 Gb each, Western Digital & Maxtor) and tried them on his machine. The screwy thing is that for both of my good HDs when I plug either one into his machine the PC will not even start up!! ....and yes I do have power to the MB because the on-board LED lights up. I have never seen this before so hopefully someone out there has and can give me an idea what to check? His specs is a Celeron 950 on an ASUS TUSL2 motherboard. One more thing is that I compared the power requirements of the HDs and they are a good match so that would not be an issue. Besides, his unit has very little extra peripherals while mine is loaded to the max. Any help greatly appreciated! TIA |
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did get in I did a scandisk, etc and found tons of bad sectors, confirming to me that in general the HD is on it's last legs. looks like it has no legs left.. the drive is now ready for the junk bin... however if there is any data on it you were trying to recover... i;ve heard a few reports that if you put the harddrive in the freezer for a while then once it;s cold put it back in the machine you may be able to use it just long enough to recover some of the data |
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:20:59 -0500, "philo"
wrote: snipped did get in I did a scandisk, etc and found tons of bad sectors, confirming to me that in general the HD is on it's last legs. looks like it has no legs left.. the drive is now ready for the junk bin... however if there is any data on it you were trying to recover... i;ve heard a few reports that if you put the harddrive in the freezer for a while then once it;s cold put it back in the machine you may be able to use it just long enough to recover some of the data Yeah I could give that a shot. However the big thing is that by trying 2 other drives on the unit (2 good drives from my machine) the unit does not even power on at all!!! I can;t figure it out and would like to solve it before buying a brand new one, in case that does not work either. |
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So I took my 2 HDs (40 Gb each, Western Digital & Maxtor) and tried
them on his machine. The screwy thing is that for both of my good HDs when I plug either one into his machine the PC will not even start up!! ....and yes I do have power to the MB because the on-board LED lights up. Plug the IDE cables on the right way. |
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forte agent wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:20:59 -0500, "philo" wrote: snipped did get in I did a scandisk, etc and found tons of bad sectors, confirming to me that in general the HD is on it's last legs. looks like it has no legs left.. the drive is now ready for the junk bin... however if there is any data on it you were trying to recover... i;ve heard a few reports that if you put the harddrive in the freezer for a while then once it;s cold put it back in the machine you may be able to use it just long enough to recover some of the data Yeah I could give that a shot. However the big thing is that by trying 2 other drives on the unit (2 good drives from my machine) the unit does not even power on at all!!! I can;t figure it out and would like to solve it before buying a brand new one, in case that does not work either. This is really dumb of me asking this, but you did check the BIOS to make sure on your friends PC that it wasnt set specifically for his PC. I will assume that you know that you havent got the cable the wrong way round. :-) -- MCR - MAME, History In The Making Want ftp access? get details at http://www.mcrs.no-ip.org or email mcr at lazarus.org.uk - Full 0.72 set verified and needed sooners, All testdrivers (except 3 missing) |
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mcr wrote:
Snipped Oops errata -) This is really dumb of me asking this, but you did check the BIOS to make sure on your friends PC that it wasnt set specifically for his PC. I will assume that you know that you havent got the cable the wrong way round. :-) I meant to say "...specifically for his hard disk" -- MCR - MAME, History In The Making Want ftp access? get details at http://www.mcrs.no-ip.org or email mcr at lazarus.org.uk - Full 0.72 set verified and needed sooners, All testdrivers (except 3 missing) |
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On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:33:22 -0400, Trent©
wrote: On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:43:56 -0400, forte agent wrote: Hopefully I'm explaining this good enough... Friend's PC has a Fujitsu 20 Gb HD which is screwed from all I can determine. The PC does not recognize the HD anymore but I was able one time to get into it. When I did get in I did a scandisk, etc and found tons of bad sectors, confirming to me that in general the HD is on it's last legs. On restart the unit could no longer be seen again by the PC and I am unable to get it to see it anymore (I guess it was pure BS luck that I did see it once to begin with). I tried the HD in my own PC which powers on fine but it as well is unable to see the HD as either Master or Slave on both the Primary or Secondary connectors. Did you check the jumpers on the Fujitsu when you put it into your machine?..and also for any drive you would have left in your machine that was on the same controller. You might have needed to do that. Yeah, the jumpers were set as a master with no slave drive present. So I took my 2 HDs (40 Gb each, Western Digital & Maxtor) and tried them on his machine. The screwy thing is that for both of my good HDs when I plug either one into his machine the PC will not even start up!! ....and yes I do have power to the MB because the on-board LED lights up. I have never seen this before so hopefully someone out there has and can give me an idea what to check? Its important to check the jumpers on the drive when you move from machine to machine. The drives probably didn't work because you forgot to change the jumpers to accommodate the machine. There's too many variations to go into this in depth. But, for instance, if you had your drives both on the same controller, then you must connect BOTH drives on the same controller on the other machine. More than likely, you tried one drive at a time. If you give us more details...on how many drives were on each cable, etc. on each machine...we might be able to go into more detail to explain this to you. No worries there, I had it all correct. To me it just doesn't make sense that the PC with the bad HD will not even power on with any drive except the corrupt one connected... Cheers. Hope ya'll have a nice weekend... Trent Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club! |
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