Hello,
Hope you can help with this one, as I am uncertain as what has happened. Today in the morning, once turning off my Win 2K Pro machine (a Toshiba Tecra Laptop) I was suddenly confronted with the BSOD; did not quite look what went wrong except noting that a message similar to ‘dumping memory to kernel’ appeared. Turned off, waited a minute or so, turned on to check and the HDD began spinning but noting, not even a ‘disk not found’ or ‘no-system disk’ or anything. Just spinning in the air (I could hear the smooth rotor, it was even a smooth sound, nothing loud or with a pitch which would suggest some sort of stiction, or the worse.) But it might be the worse.
The most peculiar thing is that I was unable to access the BIOS. Only by removing the HDD the BIOS became accessible.
Tried in the office to swap the disk into another Toshiba laptop, same. Plugged the HDD into my HP desktop (as slave) and nothing; I was even unable to access the HP BIOS.
The disk was working at perfection; it had Trend-Micro AV plus a range of Spyware/Malware scanning tools and on-the-fly protection. I have no ideas as to what might be happening. Under which circumstances a HDD will prevent access to the BIOS? It was not only reset so that it would not be the first bootable option, but it was also jumpered to slave mode, but nothing.
Tried to hot-swap after booting using a rescue disk. The drive started to spin, but was unnaccessible.
Hope someone can provide a clue and/or suggestions as what to do.
Cheers,
Ed
