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Need some suggestions with this problem I ran into the other day.
I was working on an older computer:
AMD 1.3 Ghz Tbird
Asus A7V133
512Mb Crucial PC133
10 Gig Maxtor (boot)
40 Gig Maxtor
Two 120 Gig WD's
The computer had 4 hard drives and 2 optical devices
The opticals were connected both on master to the primary and secondary IDE controller.
The hard drives were in master/slave configs on the Promise ATA100 Controller that came on the A7V133. The 10 gig and a 120 are paired (primary) and the 40 gig and the other 120 are paired (secondary).
Yesterday I decided to defrag the 10 gig and 40 gig since they contained programs (the 120's were storage). Well, I did the defrags using the windows Defrag program, when they finished, the little graphic that displays where all the files are still showed some fragmented files on the 40 gig drive, but the 10 gig drive allocated everything...so I decided to restart and see what happens.
Well, I accidentally hit suspend instead of restart, so I thought whatever, woke the computer back up, and then chose restart. The computer hung (with the hard drive activity light on solid) on the shutting down screen, so I hit the restart button.
Booting up, the ATA100 controller took longer than normal to find the drives, once it did, it got to the Windows XP screen and then a BSOD flashed and the computer auto-restarted. The next time it booted up, the ATA100 controller failed to find both the hard drives on the primary controller (the 10 gig and 120 gig).
So I plugged them both in as master by themselves, and they still weren't detected. So then I took out the optical drives and tried the hard drives on the Primary IDE controller as master drives individually and they still weren't recognized (in the BIOS).
So i'm wondering if these drives just died (although I've never heard of drives dieing in this fashion).
Any suggestions (sorry for the novel
)
I was working on an older computer:
AMD 1.3 Ghz Tbird
Asus A7V133
512Mb Crucial PC133
10 Gig Maxtor (boot)
40 Gig Maxtor
Two 120 Gig WD's
The computer had 4 hard drives and 2 optical devices
The opticals were connected both on master to the primary and secondary IDE controller.
The hard drives were in master/slave configs on the Promise ATA100 Controller that came on the A7V133. The 10 gig and a 120 are paired (primary) and the 40 gig and the other 120 are paired (secondary).
Yesterday I decided to defrag the 10 gig and 40 gig since they contained programs (the 120's were storage). Well, I did the defrags using the windows Defrag program, when they finished, the little graphic that displays where all the files are still showed some fragmented files on the 40 gig drive, but the 10 gig drive allocated everything...so I decided to restart and see what happens.
Well, I accidentally hit suspend instead of restart, so I thought whatever, woke the computer back up, and then chose restart. The computer hung (with the hard drive activity light on solid) on the shutting down screen, so I hit the restart button.
Booting up, the ATA100 controller took longer than normal to find the drives, once it did, it got to the Windows XP screen and then a BSOD flashed and the computer auto-restarted. The next time it booted up, the ATA100 controller failed to find both the hard drives on the primary controller (the 10 gig and 120 gig).
So I plugged them both in as master by themselves, and they still weren't detected. So then I took out the optical drives and tried the hard drives on the Primary IDE controller as master drives individually and they still weren't recognized (in the BIOS).
So i'm wondering if these drives just died (although I've never heard of drives dieing in this fashion).
Any suggestions (sorry for the novel
)