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    HDD Intermittent Fail on Boot

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    by czechmate ·

    My daughters computer is a Pentium III with 396 MB Ram and a 15 GB HDD running Win XP Pro. On startup it will repeatedly rtn error saying HDD fail. It will do this 3 or 4 times then will start normally. Sometimes it can take as much as 30 minutes of continually tryong to reboot before it kicks in. Replaced HDD with Known good one and got same result. Suspect built in controller on Moboard. Also suspect pwr supply. Any other ideas??

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    • #2711485

      Reply To: HDD Intermittent Fail on Boot

      by slau70 ·

      In reply to HDD Intermittent Fail on Boot

      is not from motherboard.i have same problem with some fujitsu and maxtor hdd.I go to the producer web page and i ask same question.if you are still in the waranty will change it if your wendor don*t want that.I try to fix it with powermax.exe from Maxtor web page and work again 4 monts.After that the hdd crash again.

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      by czechmate ·

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