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Please help an Ubern00b....:(

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Well, today i got all my parts from newegg, and put everything together and was running fine for about two hours. I installed warcraft 3, and went to reboot, and went to reboot...and the hard drive wouldn't boot up. I went to reformat and it told me the disk may be damagesd. Well, i figured the hard drive was bad...Happens all the time... so i was just gonna RMA it...

So i got it all back in it's static bag, and pulled out one of my other HD's from another computer, stuck it in the new comp...And tried to format it, and got the same disk may be damaged error. Tried another HD, and got the same thing. Now, i KNOW the other two hard drives were good, because they came out of a perfectly functional computer. I dunno what to do...I am lost....

Is there some bios setting that would be fouling things up? the specs are:

athlon 2800+
Asus A7v8x-x
Western digital 40 gig HD
generic case with generic 300 psu
and a geforce 4 mx440.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, i would hate to waste the money and time to RMA this drive if i don't have to.So i thought i would ask the computer guru's on here....Thank you for any and all help and suggestions you may give!
 
First thing I would do is test out one/all of those hard drives on your second ide channel. Might be your primary ide channel is messed. Also, have you tried a different ide cable yet?
 
Yeah, i tried a different IDE cable.


The weird thing is is that it was working wonderfully fine for about two hours and then just "broke."
 
Well, i just tried the hard drives on the second ide channel....same error...I don't know what to do and i'm seriously crapping bricks...... :(
 
did you reset the cmos when you first got the board... like all the manufacturers tell you to?
 
Hmm, i've never reset the CMOS initially and always been fine...

It might also be the motherboard IDE controller, or the plug for the IDE cable itself. You should try the new HD on another working system to confirm that it's not the problem. Then if the resetting of the CMOSt doesn't do the trick I'd consider RMA'ing the motherboard.
 
What size dose the BIOS dectect the HDDs at? are they correct when compared to the real drive size?


IE...Flash your BIOS to the lastest version...also try getting a win98 boot disk and formating that way
 
Hmm... Did you change the jumper settings on the drive? With WD drives if it's a lone drive on that channel you can just take the jumper out.

Peace, Morlos

Edit: You might also want to try the new drive in the functioning computer.
 
I tried resetting the cmos, and the drives all detect correctly in the bios.

I also double checked the jumper settings on all the hard drives, to no effect.


How can i flash the bios without getting into windows? Don't i have to run a flash utility, or do can i just boot off a cd with the bios on it? thanks guys!

I'll also try the new hard drive in another computer! Thanks!
 
Ok guys, the drive completes the format in the windows recovery console, but just not on windows setup. Now, i will tell you that i am using a copied version of windows xp i got for free. Now is it possible that the copied disk is just bad? Even though i had it installed and working for 2 hours? I dunno, i'm totally lost......:(
 
Dunno much about it but if your using the same key as the origanal that it was copied from, maybe microsoft did something if you went to windows update or along those lines
 
Just got the disk from a friend a few days ago...Haven't been online with the computer yet so...yeah....i dunno
 
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