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drives undetected!

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by Greeneye, 2008/04/17.

  1. 2008/04/17
    Greeneye

    Greeneye Inactive Thread Starter

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    DELL optiplex gx110, P3 733mhz. win2k pro. 512 RAM. radeon 7000.

    Windows cannot start. BIOS says that all drives( 2 hard drives and 2 CD drives are unknown ). Also, a couple of sounds were heard from inside the box. I don't think that all the drives are bad, though; since they worked well just a few days ago. :confused:
     
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  2. 2008/04/19
    Greeneye

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    Unknown drives

    OK. Here are some more informations:

    During boot up, the computer emitted a series of double beeps with long silent invertals between them( may be a few minutes or more ). After the Dell splashscreen, I got a black screen with the following line of words:

    "strike F1 to retry, F2 to setup "

    F1 repeated the same line, F2 led to BIOS setup.

    The pattern of the double beeps is confusing; I suppose that it's the warning code from the bios. I will make a dell diagnostics floppy(s). :confused:
     
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  4. 2008/04/19
    Arie

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    Sounds like a least your primary hard disk has died, in which case Windows would be unable to start.

    Getting diagnostic tools to check the drive is the 1st step.
     
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  5. 2008/04/20
    Greeneye

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    re: unknown hard drive

    I think you're right. The boot drive is really bad. Is there anyway I can retrieve some data in that drive? I tried to connect it as slave to a good boot drive but it didn't work: both drives became undetected.
     
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