Hard Drive Problem

[Thantos]

Hi guys I did a very stupid thing...

While I was checking if everything was working with my computer's case open I was fiddling with something near the computer while it was still on and I accidentally disconnected the power supply cord to my hard drive. The computer didn't shut off but when I reconnected the power to the hard drive it constantly beeps at me and when I restart the computer the screen tells me that the hard drive diagnosis failed and to put in a system disk to boot but that doesnt work. While the hard drive keeps beeping at me. What can I do? Is it dead or is there a chance?

Thx for any help that I can get!

[ServaCom]

In my time fiddling with insides of computers I have disconnected/reconnected HD power plugs on purpose for some reasons :blush:

Even saw sparks once :blink:

Never had a dead hard drive because of it :shifty: but that's not saying that you should ever do it if you value the drive (the ones I did it with I thought were dead but I managed to revive them eventually).

[Thantos]

thx for the reply but I need to find out how to fix it my bios cant detcet thestupid thing I have a maxtor 10 gb hard drive and an old asus mobo for my celeron 400mHz but Im not sure why it beeps with one short and then a long beep

[ServaCom]

It might be something else like the RAM perhaps? Maybe you knocked something else fiddling with the insides?

Beep codes: http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/beep/

[Thantos]

thx I'll check it out... I jsut popped out the cmos battery and set the bios to auto detect and ya it won't detect the stupid hard drive but it can boot from cd or floppy if I tell it to but i think the main thing I wanna fix is the hard drive...

[ServaCom]

Yeah I edited my post cos I thought your BIOS might not have been set to Auto detect and that was causing the probs there...

I recently had a similar problem to you and strangely after days of fiddling got the drive to work in another computer! (Where it still is as the primary drive!) So I would try that if you can before declaring it irrepairable.

[Thantos]

Alright I shall try! thogh hopefully someone else might know something as well!!

Thx for the help I'll opost back if I have further problems

[KC]

Did you reconnect the cable while the computer was still on?

[Thantos]

I don't rememebr too well but I believe I may have and I think that might be the reason..

[wstokeley]

I wouldn't give up on it. Check all the connections, you may find you missed something... (my dad's friend RAN OVER his hard drive and it still worked)....

If you had some important data on it, and you want it, you can always take it to a data restoration center and they will get it for you. They'll also provide a decent analaysis of what was wrong with the drive. Call into your local computer maker for this service, and i know that PC world do it as well....

[Thantos]

k thx for the reply! umm I'll try that.. It's just odd it totally isn't detected by the computer.. the rest of it works fine just the sdtupid hd

[generalstupid]

Yeah I edited my post cos I thought your BIOS might not have been set to Auto detect and that was causing the probs there...

I recently had a similar problem to you and strangely after days of fiddling got the drive to work in another computer! (Where it still is as the primary drive!) So I would try that if you can before declaring it irrepairable.

you edited your POST? how did you do that? i would think CMOS is about the farthest that anyone would be able to edit...

[isus]

i have unplugged my hard drive and plugged it back in (on accident) several times. no adverse effects.

however, when i mis-aimed plugging in the cd-rw, i arc'ed the 5 and the 12, and well, no more cd-rw. lol. hopefully it will get replaced, worst case scenario, i hafta buy another $40 cd-rw.

[ServaCom]

you edited your POST? how did you do that? i would think CMOS is about the farthest that anyone would be able to edit...

:laugh: hah... nah the forum post! I was re-evaluating my thoughts... :)