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?

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

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 .

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.

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.

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

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

And what he said.

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 :mad:

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


Who else lost power lastnight ?

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

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