hard drive failure

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apriliamgt

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hello people. need a little help.

not sure if this is the place to ask but here it goes.

i think my hard-drive on my desktop has packed in.

there is no nose from it on bootup. the graphics card kicks in really loud but nothing appears on screen. unplugged the power cable direct from the hdd. computer now boots asking for a disk drive. has the worse happened?

only just spent all night formating it and installing a fresh copy of vista. hope someone can help
 
Try using a different power supply connector to power the hard drive. Also try the drive in another system and see if it recognizes it.
 
Managed to get it up and running for like 1 min, then the system crashed again. I knocked the tower ever so slightly and it just stopped.

Again dis-connected the HDD, and the computer fired up again.
 
i have fiddles around with the power cables, you can hear the drive spinning.

but no sounds to say its scanning the drive
 
ermmm well not sure what i have done, but the system is up and running again.

Going to leave it for awhile and see what happens and put it back together.

All i did was take it out, resit the graphics card and HD and it booted.
 
Try to fully format the HDD with the DOS tool called Kill Disk and THEN make a clean Windows installation...




Cheers to you and cheers to my dear princess too!
 
Id do a full backup and then a full format/reinstall as recommended above,

the slight knocks kicking the whole system offline makes it sound like a bad connection somewhere to me aswell, maybe in a main power line... have you tried swapping the sata (ide?) connector used on the mobo?
 
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