Its a: SATA Seagate 500 GB
I actually already did swap the SATA cables - took the one from Terabyte
drive - still no good - and even tried plugging into different SATA
Ports on the MoBo - still no help...
-K-
On 11/14/2012 6:26 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
If the BIOS doesn't see the drive, there's no hope in heck that any
software (Windoze, or a utility) will see the drive either. You either
have a drive with a controller issue (not unlike a bad-attitude in a
mother-in-law) or a bad SATA cable...are you sure the drive is
spinning up and doing self-calibration? FYI, most drive manufacturers
have a downloadable utility that you can burn to a CD and boot from to
do a diagnostic on the hdisk.
Your best bet is to connect the drive to a computer that is running
WinXP or better (anything using NTFS) and hope the dual boot issue
doesn't bite you in the arse so you can copy the data off of it.
Bottom line from your description, I would consider the drive
replaceable (you can get new 500GB SATA drives for $80 or less) and
start working towards salvaging the data from the old drive.
Not that it matters, and you may have already stated...but what brand
is this HD?
Mike
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive & a Dead PC...
From: Kurt @ VR-FX <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 11/14/2012 5:03 PM
Its XP Pro 64 - which I believe has a VERY Different SP set of
iterations vs. regular XP. But, without it booting - I can't U what I
got. I did keep it updated - however...
When it is turned on initially - and it shows BIOS name, Memory & HD's
- it shows Nothing showing up in Sata channels 1 & 2. That does NOT
sound right to me! What Say you???
I'm pulling my hair out with thing - and I ain't got enough there
anymore to pull out!!!
:-(
-K-
On 11/14/2012 4:55 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
Kurt,
As has been pointed out, it would be a VERY good thing to know which
SP version your now-dead XP system was upgraded to. (Or maybe it was
installed with SP1, 2, or 3.)
You'll also need a CD that matches that level. I'm not 100%, but I
think you can reinstall from an SP1 CD to an SP3 system, but not vice
versa.
If you've had the system for any length of time, and if you've been
keeping it updated with patches, I can't imagine that you wouldn't
have SP3 on it.
Mike
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [NF] SATA Drive & a Dead PC...
From: Kurt @ VR-FX <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 11/14/2012 1:00 PM
Hello there folks,
Here's the deal. I have a desktop PC that was my main PC - but, it
died several months ago. I have my laptop - which has been my primary
computing device for quite a while now - but, the desktop PC has some
stuff on there that's not on my laptop.
FYI - the computer does attempt to Boot up - and even starts loading
the OS (WinXP Pro 64) - and comes up with the MS logo. But, during
the boot up - it eventually fails and drops to a BSOD screen - which
is always a lovely thing to see!
Someone on the list here (although he hasn't gotten back to me in a
while - and I think he has been busy and hasn't been checking e-mails
for a while) suggested I connect the main boot drive to another
computer - and run ChkDsk. Well, I tried connected it to my laptop -
but, the OS did NOT actually "SEE" the drive. I attempted to actually
connect it inside of my wife's PC - but, when it booted - Same thing
- it was like the OS could not "SEE" the drive!
So - I'm getting kinda desperate here - and hoping someone can help
me out. Again - if I put it BACK in the original PC - it does attempt
to Boot - but, then the BSOD comes up...
TIA,
-K-
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