Ok Here is the story. My system froze up two days ago while playing a video. I shut down my system, during the shutdown a program known as "ABC" (A Bit Torrent Client) had to be forced to shut down. When the system restarted the Bios couldn't detect either of my two hard drives. This has happened before, what I can guess is the hard drives failed to demount properly. I might be wrong on that matter. The main problem is that normally the system just needs to be restarted a few times and it works perfectly after. Not this time. Here is the basics of the system.
Motherboard: ASUS A7S333
Processor: Athlon XP 2400+
BIOS: 1.006 (Currently newest for the board)
Hard Drives: Maxtor 120GB, 40GB
RAM: 768MB DDR
OS: Windows XP on 120GB, Linux on 40GB
Since the hard drives went missing two days ago I have attempted the following, resetting of the system, resetting defaults in the Bios, resetting the Bios by removal of the Motherboard's battery, loading Linux Defender and running a thorough virus scan unmounting and mounting of hard drives in Linux.
For the record, my master drive the 120GB hard drive is recognized under three Linux Live CDs that I have used, I have been able to run virus scans as well as play videos off them. This stopped my suspiction that the hard drive was fried and that the IDE cables might have a problem.
Three out of four of the partitions of the second hard drive are also detected by Linux, I have not attempted to read off the drives however.
The hard drives are not overheating, this much I am quite certain of. They did that once so I have seperated them and put the master drive in a Hard Drive caddy with two fans constantly cooling it. I have also replaced all the IDE cables with bundled ones to allow for extra air flow.
This has come to the end of my ideas of what to do. As of this point I can not seem to find a way to get my hard drives booting. Does anyone have any ideas?
