cerbero Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 I think I just lost one of my hard drives. What happened was this: After using WinRAR to unpack a large file on my primary slave IDE hard drive, which has only this one partition on it. When I clicked to close WinRAR, windows locked up. I thought "Well, it's been on for two weeks, needed a reboot anyways." So that I did. After getting back into windows, I noticed that the partition I had been unpacking to wasn't visible. I thought it had just become hidden, through some windows bug (it's happened for me before), but when I went to Disk Management, the physical drive wasn't visible. I stayed cool and thought that windows itself had just failed to detect the drive on load-up. I rebooted again, but the drive was still not available. Now I started to get worried. I rebooted and checked BIOS settings. The drive wasn't there. I tried to forcibly activate that IDE connection, and rebooted. It tried to detect the drive for about 5 minutes. Then I got a message saying "Error on primary slave IDE drive. Press F1 to continue". And now I'm stuck without that drive :hurt: I've never had this happen to me before, so I'm wondering; is the drive really crashed you think? Or is it a BIOS error, or is any of my hardware except the drive faulty? At least it was not my system drive.. Just my *cough* backup one. Hope someone can help me straighten this out.. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerbero Posted June 30, 2002 Author Share Posted June 30, 2002 Bump... Please anyone? I need to have some stuff on that drive.. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 Mine does that occasionally, just doesnt appear on the bios auto detection. Either a couple reboots, or a ide-cable-wiggle and its ok. Pain in the ass tho, causes windows to die on its arse. I've replaced the ata66 (@100) cable, (?15!!!), but still get the same problem. I'm begining to think the IBM 60g drive is dieing, or its a fault on the mobo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrowinerstar Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 okay i had this problem be4 with an HP Pavilion 8776c the only way i fixed this was when i removed the hdd. put in a completly different hdd in. and put the original inside a different computer. and try to boot them up. if the original in side the other computer starts fine. then ur data is ok. try the new hdd in the computer and see if u have problems. . if u dont have problem/ or do, reset ur bios. and upgrade to the latest version.. put in the original hdd and boot up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerbero Posted June 30, 2002 Author Share Posted June 30, 2002 I tried wiggeling and changing the IDE cables, didn't help. I'll try later to use it in another pc though. Thanks to you both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted June 30, 2002 Share Posted June 30, 2002 mmm, since you say it's your secondary drive, what I am about to say won't apply, but thought I would just say just for other's reference. I had some odd sh!t happen to me once, and the HD just sorta disappeared on my. What I figure out later was to use fixmbr command and everything was back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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