I have been working with computers for 15 years and have never seen this. My wife’s computer was doing fine one day. We left the house for an hour and when we got home it had “Disk read error:Press ctrl, alt, and del to restart.”
Well, I did and it came right back to the same thing. I used my BART CD to run a cmd prompt and tried to look at the drive’s files, but I couldn’t find any. Next I tried booting with WinXP cd and it stalled during the POST and didn’t detect the drive. I swapped out the drive and it wouldn’t see that one either. So I put the old drive back in and it all the sudden it said “no 80 wired connector” or something like that for the CD ROM and STILL didn’t see the HDD!! So I swapped out all the cables and got rid of the 80 wire connector message, but I still can’t get any HDDs to detect.
My guess is, it’s the IDE ports, or the mobo, but what in the world would make that happen within an hour’s time while we ran to the store? And if anyone has seen this before, please, let me know if I’m on the right track.
Thanks!
