harddrive issues

[TDF]

last night due to a 20 mile radius blackout my harddrive went kaput and windows cant and wont load on it..so today I went and bought a ew 200 gig harddrive to replace it but here is where it gets screwy.when I insert my disc to load up windows xp it says booting from cd rom and just hangs there.i CAN SEE THE LIGHTS GOING off on the cd now so I know its tryint to access it..do you think my OS disc is fucked or is the new hd fucked?

[TDF]

oh yeah,with no disc in the cd rom it system disc boot failure,insert system disk and press enter..and the bios finds the hd just fine

[machinegunkelly]

hmm .. my power went out last night too

and it wasnt raining or anything ,
thats been happening alot lately ,

The end is near


Sounds like a master/slave problem TDF .
Im not sure what to tell ya .

[MattO]

did the drive come with a floppy with disk utils on it? Sometimes you have to fdisk the drive with the manufacturer's disk utility.

[Disco_Stu]

If it is a seagate or Western Digital, XP will not recognize them if they are over like 80 gigs without service pack 4 from microshit.
I just had to do it.

[Ice]

fuck my power went out last night too for about 10 minutes....WTF? did George forget to pay the electric bill?

[AgentCash]

Yeah check the jumpers on the hard drive & CDROM... sounds like a master/slave prob.

[Disco_Stu]

Originally posted by MattO
did the drive come with a floppy with disk utils on it? Sometimes you have to fdisk the drive with the manufacturer's disk utility.

And what he said.

[machinegunkelly]

Originally posted by iceicebaby
fuck my power went out last night too for about 10 minutes....WTF? did George forget to pay the electric bill?

Im in Canada ,
We lost power last night for about ten minutes and then again this morning for an hour or so :P


Cost me a few hours rendering

Wonder how big the black out was , and why it wasnt on the news .


Who else lost power lastnight ?

[TDF]

Originally posted by Disco_Stu
If it is a seagate or Western Digital, XP will not recognize them if they are over like 80 gigs without service pack 4 from microshit.
I just had to do it.

yeap,its a western digital

[HS-Trixxxia]

Originally posted by toodamnfli
yeap,its a western digital

Western digital sucks donkey balls - it lasted about 13 months and it's now caput on my kids' computer - it's been grinding for about 5-6 months (just the sound wasn't loud enough) seemed like it was a fan issue but now I'm getting the blue screen of death. I have harddrives from my first fucking computers that still work - Western Digital isn't very good. Go exchange it if you can. Get a Maxtor

[TDF]

the last drie i had was a maxtor,im trying to find a way to format it and wipe it completely clean