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15th November 2008, 00:33 | #1 |
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Weird Hard Drive Thing
Hitachi Deskstar - 123.5GB, IDE hard drive, model IC35L120AVV207-1
It worked fine last week, then I dismantled the PC it was in - now two different computers won't recognise it at all (one XP Pro SP2, one Vista Ultimate SP1). Nothing shows in Computer or Windows Explorer on either machine. Any ideas guys & gals? NB. I've got six of these drives (all identical models) and the others are all recognised by both machines. |
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15th November 2008, 11:14 | #3 |
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Jumper is on master setting Steve.
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Unusual for complete failure recognition,
unless Drive has failed completely. |
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These are the things I would try, (just incase you haven't.) Do you have an external usb Caddy or a USB to IDE lead you could try ? if the led's are red it has failed. Can you hear it spinning ? Have you tried Jumper on cable Select ? Have you tried switching it on in BIOS ? Have you tried re-installing/ repairing operating system ? James |
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If you go into Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management - Do you see the HDD in there?
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You say that it doesn't show in Windows Explorer which suggests you may be using another drive as your boot drive. If so, the Deskstar should be configured as slave. If you enter BIOS at system boot up (usually by pressing Del) is the drive recognised by the motherboard?
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It's a faulty drive.
Now destroyed! |
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