Unfortunately, it's not Windoze. BIOS says there's nothing there. SATA1 is
*VACANT*.
I'm not too sure why the 'D:' drive was on SATA1 and not on SATA2, but with
modern motherboards it doesn't matter which channel the drives are connected to.
You set boot order independently.
Once I get it out I'll to look on-line for a replacement PC board. If it's not
too expensive (under $50) I might get one and try to resurrect the drive long
enough to rescue the data.
On 8/18/2019 19:03:36, Paul Sorenson wrote:
Knoppix has saved my bacon several times when Windows fails to recognize a
drive...
https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
-p
On 8/18/2019 4:24 PM, John wrote:
... or to quote William Bendix, "What a revolting development this is!"
MY second hard-drive (Drive 'D:') just crashed with no warning. BIOS doesn't
recognize it. Dead as a door-nail.
I'm pretty sure the only thing I don't have a backup for is the spread sheet I
use to record my blood sugar. My spread sheet for recording fuel & maintenance
is also gone, but I can rebuild it from the book I keep in the car to write
mileage down.
I'm going to lose some songs I'd been learning to play. Hadn't gotten them to
the point where I could finalize them and save them as PDF files (which I keep
on a memory stick). And most of the computer games I play were on that drive,
but they can be re-installed from Steam once I get the new drive installed ...
... but the computer store is closed on Sunday, so I can't get a replacement
to fix the problem until tomorrow.
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