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HDD Mysteriously fails
Name: cattlepr0d Date: August 27, 2003 at 21:37:19 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro CPU/Ram: XP2800/PC2700 DDR
Comment:
During installation of xp pro i recieve no errors yet my hdd tends to stop responding. Upon booting the computer and heading to bios it reads that all is well and all is recognized, yet when i attempt to setup my os it hangs immediately after being asked to continue setup. so i tried win98 with the same results yet it tells me that there is no hdd or there is a problem. So thinking my brand new western digital 80 gig hdd had died i swapped it with my old 15 gig of the same brand with the exact same results. Ive tried many different options to remedy the situation but none have worked. Ive switched the power plugs.. the ribbon.. nothing seems to be working right. Please help. My system by the way is an ASUS A7v8x-x mobo with an AMD XP2800 with a 512 chip of OCZ pc2700 ddr with enermax 450 watt powersupply.
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Summary: Your HDD is failing and it can't be trusted. Get anything off of it as soon as you can. A temporary fix that might work would be to freeze it but only do that if you can't get it to be read/copied. ...
Summary: Try to run a HDD utility. Maxtor has Maxblast and Seagate has Seagate Tools. See if your HDD has failed. If you can't even run a HDD utility, you might be able to slave this drive into another comp...
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