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TDF · 06-11-2004, 07:43 PM

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 · 06-11-2004, 07:46 PM

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 · 06-11-2004, 07:49 PM

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 · 06-11-2004, 07:50 PM

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 · 06-11-2004, 07:53 PM

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 · 06-11-2004, 07:53 PM

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

AgentCash · 06-11-2004, 07:53 PM

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

Disco_Stu · 06-11-2004, 07:53 PM

Quote:

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 · 06-11-2004, 07:56 PM

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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 · 06-11-2004, 07:56 PM

Quote:

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 · 06-11-2004, 08:00 PM

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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 · 06-11-2004, 08:13 PM

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

06-11-2004, 07:43 PM	#1
TDF Triple OG nigga on GFY Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in the BP4L family compound Posts: 27,296	harddrive issues 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? __________________ Sig heil

06-11-2004, 07:46 PM	#2
TDF Triple OG nigga on GFY Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in the BP4L family compound Posts: 27,296	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 __________________ Sig heil

06-11-2004, 07:49 PM	#3
machinegunkelly Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 3,285	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 . __________________ dead.

06-11-2004, 07:53 PM	#6
Ice Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sunny California Posts: 26,053	fuck my power went out last night too for about 10 minutes....WTF? did George forget to pay the electric bill? __________________ icq 1904905

06-11-2004, 08:13 PM	#12
TDF Triple OG nigga on GFY Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in the BP4L family compound Posts: 27,296	the last drie i had was a maxtor,im trying to find a way to format it and wipe it completely clean __________________ Sig heil

06-11-2004, 07:50 PM	#4
MattO The O is for Oohhh Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: AUSTIN TEJAS Posts: 10,861	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.

06-11-2004, 07:53 PM	#5
Disco_Stu So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 757	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.

06-11-2004, 07:53 PM	#7
AgentCash Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 720	Yeah check the jumpers on the hard drive & CDROM... sounds like a master/slave prob.