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Hard Drive or Mobo problem?

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Weaksauce
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I have no idea how it happened, but my friend royally fucked up my 120 gig somehow.

I'm not sure if it's a hardware problem or not, but I'll post it here for now since I didn't see anything wrong with the software I use.

What happened was:
- He attempted to connect his hard drive to back up stuff via my primary HD (a 120 gig Western Digital) and use Nero.

- It wouldn't recognize his drive, so he tried it with my secondary drive.

- He got it to work with my secondary drive, but then the 120 wouldn't work anymore.

- He gave up on getting his to work with mine and realized that my HD was messing up.

- So then it wouldn't recognize that my 120 was there. After fiddling with it, we made it secondary to his HD and ran a diagnostic from my WD disc. Said that the Partition was corrupted.

- So, being that all my stuff was already backed up, we reformatted and reinstalled WinXP, but now for some reason, it won't boot unless the XP disc is the in the drive. It doesn't use the XP disc, it just spins it then goes to windows. (He tried various ways to fix it, but was unsucessful and went home, leaving me with a fucked up computer just because he wanted to back up his HD on my DVD drive)

So, ladies and gentlemen, what the fuck is wrong???
 
TheMostWantedPolishTwin said:
what filesystem? if FAT you may try formatting to NTFS...
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He's the one that reformatted this time. I usually use NTFS, but I'll ask him if he use FAT.

As for Jumper Settings, it's set to primary and my secondary HD is set to slave. (We tried cable select to see if that fixed it, but it didn't work)
 
Ok, well is the status now that you have only your drive and it doesn't work at all right now? Or is his still in the system?
 
My other friend came over and checked it out. He says that he thinks that for some reason the HD isn't recongnizing or doesn't have one of the needed bootup files.

After thinking about it, he reformatted and installed XP too, but just like my other friend, same problem. It won't boot up without the XP CD even though it's not really using it.

My friend (the one that messed it up first) called me today claiming that a tech friend he talks to says that he went through about 4 Western Digital 120 gig HDs with similar problems.

What I want to know now also, is that true that they're faulty or is he trying to save his own skin?
 
In your bios see if you have an option in there to change the boot order of the hard drives. I'm talking about a seperate option that the one where you pick floppy, hard drive cdrom etc. On my mobo theres a seperate option for just hard drives. If you have something similar make sure theyre in the right order to boot off the primary drive before the secondary.
 
The_Tecknishen said:
In your bios see if you have an option in there to change the boot order of the hard drives. I'm talking about a seperate option that the one where you pick floppy, hard drive cdrom etc. On my mobo theres a seperate option for just hard drives. If you have something similar make sure theyre in the right order to boot off the primary drive before the secondary.
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My friend checked it. No go.

EDIT: And now, after the reinstall he did, I have to go into the XP setup (blue setup screens), then tell it to exit without installing windows and THEN I can get into XP.

It's really weird. It shouldn't go into the XP install unless I click a key.
 
Oh... my.... GOD.

It was the fucking IDE cable the whole time. I have to buy a new one tommorow. sucktacular.
 
Heh.. I was just about to say check the cable.. I have had drives that partially recognize.. like the model name will be partially there.. and partially messed up cause the cable was not in all the way.

At least ya figured it out.
 
Paragon said:
Heh.. I was just about to say check the cable.. I have had drives that partially recognize.. like the model name will be partially there.. and partially messed up cause the cable was not in all the way.

At least ya figured it out.
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I can't believe we didn't check that BEFORE we reinstalled windows. :mad:
 
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