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Is this a hd failure?
Name: algae1 Date: September 30, 2004 at 18:27:28 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon XP Barton 2500+ /
Comment:
Before I recommend a new hd for my brother-in-law I just want to run the symptoms by you. It's a 5 year old HP Pavillion, 500 Mhz AMD running Windows 2000 Pro. Yesterday he got a "no operating system found" error on bootup. It will post but hangs there. When he tried to reinstall Win 2000 he got a I/O 0000100 (I think that's the code). Today I took over Win 2000 boot floppies and tried to boot from that but still got the I/O message. Before I run out and get a new hd, any second opinions? Thanks Gary
Athlon XP Barton 2500+ A7N8X Deluxe MB 1 Gb OCZ Dual Channel DDR RAM ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Leadtek WinFast 2000 XP TV Tuner Seagate 160 G. SATA LG 4040 DVD Klipsch Promedia 2.1
Name: Rocketmech Date: September 30, 2004 at 19:29:42 Pacific
Reply:
1st, check if the Bios sees the drive. if not, check the SATA and power cables are in place and secure. Then, try Seagates diagnostic utility to test the drive. http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287
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Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: October 1, 2004 at 07:49:49 Pacific
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Make that check the IDE (ATA) cables.
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Response Number 3
Name: Grok Lobster Date: October 1, 2004 at 13:09:23 Pacific
Reply:
The Seagate diagnostic should tell you for sure. If the drive passes, try another power supply.
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