Re: [uug] Good low level hard drive & computer diagnostic tools

[Jon Jensen]

A few thoughts...

As someone already mentioned, there could be a hardware conflict. A good 
test is to unplug any other drives or devices one at a time and try to boot 
after removing each one. Again, if you are able to boot at some point after 
doing this, the blame would lie with drivers/other hardware.

Specifically, it could be bad memory, if this is the second hard drive this 
has happened to. My preferred way of testing for memory/motherboard problems 
after the above fails is to stick the drive in another box (if you have one) 
and see what happens when you boot it. If it boots okay, the drive is 
probably not the culprit.

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