Friend’s (client’s) HDD failed suddenly, cannot access. Details: Maxtor 40Gb IDE, model 54098U8, on Asrock K7S8X, American Megatrends Bios, with AMD 2400+XP, 256Mb DDR333 RAM, running WinXPPro SP1. All running fine for a year until sudden failure during online browsing. With Maxtor as Prim (sole) Master, boot screen shows it only as ‘IDE Hard Drive’, and halts with error ‘Pri IDE Master Error’, and forces into Setup. Setup (CMOS) shows Maxtor 40Gb on AutoDetect, but will not offer an option to boot from it. Slaved to 2nd system, same problem. MaxBlast diagnostics cannot see it, nor can Disk Management in XP. Any suggestions, anyone? Jumpers OK, mobo IDE OK, ribbon OK.Help! And yes, I’ve already hit it…lightly…
