IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm 99% positive this is problem is hardware related. It occured during an installation of OSx86, so I had to include this information as I feel it is technically relevant.
I have two Raptor 150GB drives. They were in raid 0, but I set them to be individual drives. I unhooked one of the two drives and attempted to install OSx86. This is basically a modded copy of MAC OSX that will run on PC. I reformated the drive to HFS+ filesystem and it worked fine. For a few days I had been playing with different distros of OSx86 and decided to try to upgrade to the newest version, Leopard. However during installation I realized I had the wrong settings and elected to cancel the installation.
Now my computer won't boot with the hard drive connected. My LanParty Ultra-D will display the LanParty logo that appears when the computer is first turned on- then it just stays there. If I disconnect the drive it boots fine. I tried booting with both drives and had the same issue. I just can't get past this screen with the HD connected!
Frustrated, I assumed it could be a motherboard issue. I unpluged the "faulty" hard drive and tried with the other raptor. No problem booting! I tried using the same cables/connections with the "faulty" drive and had the same problem. At this point I ruled out the mobo / cables as a possibility of causing the problem and assumed the HDD was the problem.
I switched to the other Raptor and attempted the same thing. I started the installation, got to the same point and cancelled. Same problem. Now I can't boot with either drive. Needless to say I'll probably be giving up on OSx86 at the point, but I need to recover my hard drives. How can I save my hardware? Somehow I need to boot it up and reformat to NTFS and install windows, but I can't get past the initial "bios logo."
I have two Raptor 150GB drives. They were in raid 0, but I set them to be individual drives. I unhooked one of the two drives and attempted to install OSx86. This is basically a modded copy of MAC OSX that will run on PC. I reformated the drive to HFS+ filesystem and it worked fine. For a few days I had been playing with different distros of OSx86 and decided to try to upgrade to the newest version, Leopard. However during installation I realized I had the wrong settings and elected to cancel the installation.
Now my computer won't boot with the hard drive connected. My LanParty Ultra-D will display the LanParty logo that appears when the computer is first turned on- then it just stays there. If I disconnect the drive it boots fine. I tried booting with both drives and had the same issue. I just can't get past this screen with the HD connected!
Frustrated, I assumed it could be a motherboard issue. I unpluged the "faulty" hard drive and tried with the other raptor. No problem booting! I tried using the same cables/connections with the "faulty" drive and had the same problem. At this point I ruled out the mobo / cables as a possibility of causing the problem and assumed the HDD was the problem.
I switched to the other Raptor and attempted the same thing. I started the installation, got to the same point and cancelled. Same problem. Now I can't boot with either drive. Needless to say I'll probably be giving up on OSx86 at the point, but I need to recover my hard drives. How can I save my hardware? Somehow I need to boot it up and reformat to NTFS and install windows, but I can't get past the initial "bios logo."
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