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Primary Hard Drive Dies!!!!

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by cary44 May 28, 2001 last reply Jun 16, 2001

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I recently got a new PC and needed to transfer my data from my old PC. When I tried to boot up the old PC I got the message "Primary Hard Disk Failure" I tried everything that I know to recover files, but failed. I installed another Hard Drive on myPrimary controller, Loaded the OS & some other Apps and in about 2 weeks the Primary Hard disk failed again.

This appears to be too much of a coincidence. Does anyone have an idea as to what might be happening??

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by buffalodan May 28, 2001

I suspect a failed disk controller on the older PC's System board.

I wonder if you would be able to bring these drives up as secondary drives on the new PC?

Tech republic has a great download,
"200 hundred ways to revive a hard drive"

Here's the link....

https://www.techrepublic.com/download_item.jhtml?id=dr00320000510jed01.htm

Good luck, I hope this helps...

by buffalodan May 28, 2001

Also, karen's Power tolls, part of winmag.com, offers a context (rt Click) menu editor application.

Good luck with that, and this.

by buffalodan May 28, 2001

that was "Karen's power Tools" not tolls...

by cary44 May 28, 2001

I read about reviving a hard drive....tried some of the suggestions and none worked.
Could NOT read either disk on my old PC's secondary controller or on my new PC's secondary controller.

by ricrei May 28, 2001

Just a thought have you tried changing the power supply , as if this is putting out the wrong voltage or maybe spiking the power it would kill your drive.

by cary44 May 31, 2001

I thought of that, but discounted the idea because I have had no problems with the drive on the secondary controller. What I will do when I get a chance is to remove the Primary Controller and make my Secondary the primary....Any other ideas or comments are welcome....

by it_instructor May 30, 2001

Are you using good ESD practice? Have you tried to attach your old hard drive in your new pc on the secondary IDE as master (with no other device on the secondary chain) boot from your new hard drive and access your old hard drive from windows? Believe it or not, not all hard drives will work together on the same IDE channel (master/slave). Download diagnostics for the hard drive in question from the manufacturer and check for firmware upgrades. Hope this helps.