Hello, I have GRUB with Ubuntu & Windows XP dual boot and two physical drives.
Drive 1: GRUB MBR, Ubuntu 8.04, Seagate 200GB ATA. (i.e the old tech) Drive 2: Windows XP SP3, Seagate 500GB SATA (i.e the new tech) I think my drive 2 is dead (*sniff), as when I try to boot WindowsXP from Grub, it says "boot parameters refer to non-existant disk" or something like that, and i can't mount it from Ubuntu anymore. (I used to be able to) Because GRUB is installed on my primary ATA Drive 1, in theory I can just disconnect Drive 1 and boot from Windows on Drive 2. However, still no success: the BIOS tells me that no OS/boot disks are present on the DVD drive, and makes no reference to my SATA drive. I went into the BIOS setup, and realized that, after looking at my boot device priorities, the BIOS did not detect my SATA drive anymore (drive 2), only my ATA drive (drive 1) and my SATA DVD-RW. I opened my PC case and tried to boot while inspecting my malfunctioning SATA Drive 2. The drive seems fine!! No scrashes, no strange sounds, the disk is vibrating normally as it should (i.e it's spinning normally) and both the power cable and the SATA cable are connected properly on the drive and on the motherboard. I even tried using my DVD-RW's SATA and power cables on my SATA Drive 2 instead (and using a different SATA port on the motherboard), and the BIOS -still- does not detect it. Yet, my SATA drive seems absolutely normal and was working 2 days ago with no errors, no bsod, no freezing, no weird sound, nothing to alert suspicion. I tried resetting the BIOS settings by removing and reinserting the motherboard jumper, still no luck. I tried connecting the hard drive to the motherboard of another computer I have in the house, still not detected by that other BIOS. So WHY is it not detected by the BIOS? Did it just die all of a sudden for no reason? Is there a curse on my PC? Is there anything I can do? Please help me. Thank you so much. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
