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Partition Magic Rescue Disks

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by Barry, 2002/12/21.

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  1. 2002/12/26
    Barry

    Barry Geek Member Thread Starter

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    Mike,
    I seem to be digging myself deeper into this hole. My Computer doesn't see a second hard drive, so I set the jumper for primary drive and disconnected the good drive. It kept searching for the drive and found nothing. The drive gets warm near the back, where the power plugs in, but not the center. When I got the A drive to run, it said no fixed disks present when I typed in fdisk. The drive doesn't seem to be working at all.
    Then I hooked up the good drive and messed up again. I forgot to take out the startup disk from the A drive. Unfortunately, when it started up, I pushed the button to remove the floppy. That caused a problem, and I was told to start up in safe mode. I did this, but my desktop changed colors and size of icons, and everything is running very slowly. I fixed the color and the size of the icons, but I still have a very slow computer.
    As far as your questions go, the 40GB was originally my primary drive. I now have it as slave with the changed jumpers. I am unable to boot with a floppy. I hope this can be saved somehow, but I'm starting to question that.
    Barry
     
  2. 2002/12/26
    mflynn

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    Partition Magic will not help you here. If the BIOS can not see the drive then you can do nothing with it.

    If you are used to it when you turn on a computer you can hear the HD spin up, a few purrs and clicks then silence after the bootup completes.

    Listen for this on your good drive to get a feel for it, then switch and listen on the other. If you do not hear the spinup the the drive is bad!

    But just in case, what brands are both drives? There is a slight possibility that your BIOS is not detecting this drive. But if it don't spinup it is dead.

    If Western Digital, the wd.com site has a diagnostic for their drives that will help. And will be required for you to run it, by them before they will give you a RMA for warranty replacement.

    Sorry about your trouble with your current HD and OS. You are getting a real lesson. I hope you can lean from it like the rest of us.

    So give me some more info about your problem with the current boot drive.

    What OS? Speed of computer, ram, etc.

    We will see if we can reccomend a proceedure to fix it!

    mike

    PS PQ magic is a good thing to have. But for this problem forget it for now. Totally useless until you have drive access.
     
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  4. 2003/01/17
    brycep

    brycep Inactive

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    Hard Drive Problems

    Hi,

    You may like to look at SpinRite 5.0 at
    http://grc.com/default.htm
    I have been using SpinRite 5.0 for several years although I have not tried to recover any data with it. If a hard drive is physically damaged SpinRite 5.0 won't help you. Take a look at the FAQ at
    http://grc.com/srQ&A.htm
    Good Luck
     
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