hard disk failure

Hard drives are basically mechanical devices with moving (spinning disk and moving heads) parts, and like any mechanical device it will eventually wear out to the point where it is no longer of any use.

Dependent on the age of your system, this disk failure may or may not come as a surprise.

You could check all the connecting cables between your motherboard and drives, in case something may have come loose.

Without knowing all the details of your computer, there is very little more that I can suggest. :)

So if you have a Seagate HDD you use Seatools

http://tinyurl.com/yvq99t

Maxator uses

http://tinyurl.com/23pcha

Hatachi uses

http://tinyurl.com/3cph4

If the drive fails the test remove it from that computer fit it to another and retest. If it still fails the test the HDD is dead, gone to [b]Silicon Heaven[/b] and need to be replaced. If the HDD is still Under Guarantee return it along with the error codes generated by the Test Utility to the place of sale for replacement.

If it passes on the second test the M'Board, Data Lead or Power Lead is faulty in the original computer and the faulty one needs replacing.

Col

Hai,
You have to go first to BIOS setup to check that weather your HDD and CD ROM has been detecting or not by your system?If it detecting then you you have to insert a bootable CD in CDROM and try.If your HDD and CD ROM not detecting, check the connections once again and change the IDE or SATA cables if required.It is better to check the HDD connections first and try other things later.OK
I hope my suggestion will help you.

If so then you will need the SATA drivers.
Put in your motherboard drivers disk and select " 32 bit SATA" or something similar.
When you have selected this you will need a FLOPPY disk, put the floppy disk in and select the 32 bit driver, this will then write to your floppy disk. Take out the floppy, put in your Windows XP disk and when you see "Press F6 for third party drivers" PRESS THE F6 key and then put in the floppy disk that you made earlier, Windows will copy the driver to the Windows code and all should be well. :)

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.
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