HD refuses to work in systems...

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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I'm pretty confused now. Remember that computer with the GoBack issues I had last week? Well today I decided to stick the drive in another machine to see what's accessable. Perhaps even run some scans.

I stick it in my IBM tester, and the computer will start to boot. However, it locks up half way, never getting to XP. Same with Safe Mode. I stick it in another older computer I just got, and the bios locks up when it try to detect it.

Jumpers were set right on both(Master/Single and it's the only drive on the secondary channel) I tried flipping the cable just in case it was wrong, but it makes the older computer refuse to post...
 
Try it as a stand alone on the primary and first boot with an MS startup floppy to try the "fdisk /mbr" command. Once you move a drive from one case to another the mbr has to be reset if it will boot at all. You could also set the jumper to cable select to see if you get anywhere with it.
 
DCIScouts said:
Did the surface of the HD get scratched somehow possibly?
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It's hard to say as I just got the machine. What's getting me is that none of my computers can access it. The drive appears to be your average WesternDigital 40G...

Also, I ripped apart a HD enclosure we had and tried that. The drive still won't work. And it's not that the drive is incompatable(or should be the case) as the original drive in the enclosure was a 40GB Western Digital!
 
Yes, but there's no way around it! :P

I tried fdisk won't run. Invalid disk, or something like that :P That pretty much settles it's a bad drive.
 
Did you try a different cable or the cable select jumper setting? You can boot up with the XP cd and try "Fixmbr" at the recovery console as well as booting up with an older dos floppy. Another tool that everyone seems to spur at is the GParted live cd. That has a better hard drive detection then the XP installer does.
 
I didn't try any other cables on my machines, but it runs on cable select on the original computer. However, I did set the jumper accordingly. I know my cables are standard(particually in my tester system) as I use it to test my hard drives :P

And if you saw above, I can't get my tester to boot to either XP or Safe mode, and the original computer won't go beyond GoBack(though it had ME on it)

I don't know what GParted is, but it's probably like my BartPE disk which fails to load(HD just starts clicking)
 
GParted is a Linux tool more commonly known as the Gnome Partition Editor. From extended use here at times it's a better tool for detecting drives and partitions regardless of what OS is on a drive. It create any type of partition while not being able to format them. There the OS dos tool or installer does that.

HD is clicking? That's the first mention of that one. That usually points at a drive on the way... oooooooooooout!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: except in cases where a board(bios mainly) fault has developed(like cooking the board with an overheated cpu seen in the last case here. :( ) where the clicking is heard even though the drive is completely functional when used elsewhere.
 
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