On 1/28/10 5:42 PM, Joe User wrote:
> Hello HWG,
>
> I have a compaq in with a Hitachi deathstar drive issue. I ordered a
> WD green series 500gb 32mb 7200 sata drive to replace the failed
> drive. The customer ordered the vista recovery cd's since the recovery
> partition was shot. When I first put the discs in it worked great and
> was leading me thru the recovery process. However, the choice I made
> was not what I wanted so I backed out and it dropped me out to reboot.
>
> Since then I have not been able to get into the recovery discs, I am
> booting from them but it gives me a "non-system disk or disk error".
>
> The discs read fine from 2 other DVD drives and I have swapped out
> their compaq DVD drive with a another yet the problem continues. So,
> next step was to test the drive (new one) and sure enough it comes
> back with SMART errors in the read test. So I goto WD web site and DL
> their diagnostic iso and try to get the system to boot off of it. It
> gives me an error that it can't find some file on the CD - that is
> actually there. So I download a new copy and burn another - same
> thing. I replaced the DVD drive again and the problem continues.
>
> So... This is weird. One thing I tried was a XP disc, and I did a
> fixmbr, diskpart, and format (which took awhile) but all that worked
> fine. Yet, everything else...
>
>
Boot up something like dban and do a quick wipe of the drive, even the
first little bit of the drive should be enough.
The machine is really trying to boot the hard drive, and is having issues.
Harry
> Ideas?
>
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