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Hard Drives Malfunctioning

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by crimsonghost, 2010/05/05.

  1. 2010/05/05
    crimsonghost

    crimsonghost Inactive Thread Starter

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    Greetings and Salutations!
    My hard drives went funny last week. my storage drive disappeared! I shut the computer down for the night and when I turned it on in the morning the drive was gone!
    It may have been nearing the critical less-than-15% free space mark, but I didn't check and now I cant see it to do so.
    It is not being detected in the BIOS either.
    I did a repair install on windows, and it made no difference.
    Virus scanner comes up clean as well.
    Now this morning, after 4 days of "regular" operation (minus the storage HD) I got this error:
    "4th Hard Disk Failure, Press F1 to continue "
    pressed F1 and everything proceeded as normal
    please let me know if any additional information is required.
    thanks guys!
    -spenny

    AMD Athalon 7750 2.7ghz Dual Core
    ASUS M3N78-VM Motherboard
    3.25gb RAM
    WD 340gb SATA HD (storage, undetectable)
    WD 150gb SATA HD (Partitioned, 1 contains XP, the other Pictures/Music)
     
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  2. 2010/05/05
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Normal but no storage drive or is the drive now back?

    When a drive isn't seen in the BIOS - that's a good indication it died beyound repair. On the other hand - the cable it's attached could be unplugged or dead.
     
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  4. 2010/05/05
    crimsonghost

    crimsonghost Inactive Thread Starter

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    normal as in no storage drive still, but no other errors or strange occurrences.
    will test other cables.
    is there any way to rescue the data if the drive IS fried?
    hmm, i'd better backup the baby pictures RIGHT NOW.
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    You have to be able to access the drive before you can get any data off of it.

    The Pro companies can do all sorts of magic for HUNDREDS and Hundreds of dollars.
     
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