Boot problems - Searching for Boot Record IDE-0...OK

[techwanabe]

I get the message: "Searching for Boot Record IDE-0...OK" on Rig 2 in my siggy during the POST phase and then it stops there and does nothing. Is my hard drive - only a year old hitting the crapper? I here something trying to spin up but I wonder if thats the hard drive not spinning up....

 

[mpilchfamily]

Likely you just have a currupted HDD. I recomend going online and create a copy of UBCD or something similar.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Just download the .iso file and burn it to a bootable disk. Then you can boot from that disk in the problem system. On there will be a chkdsk like application that can scan and repair currupted sectors for you. Or you can pull the drive out of the system and put it into another one and run Chkdsk from there.

 

[techwanabe]

Thanks for the tip. It might be too late now. I got home and tried a couple things:

1) I found an old 20 gb hard drive and tried formatting it and seeing if I could install windows on it. During the windows install, it told me the hard drive was 7555mb partition size, which is strange since its a 20gb drive. I tried formatting anyway and at the end of the format it told me it was unable to instlall windows (hard drive was bad or some such message).

2) I plugged the hard drive back in that has been running for the last year, a 150gb drive. I tried doing the windows install back on that drive, it said the same thing, that the drive was 7555 mb partition and after trying to format, it was unable to install windwos (same message as before).

Now that is just wierd, the windows install saying that both a 20 gb and a 150 gb drive were both 7555 size partition. The BIOS says Large Block mode is one but something is screwy in Denmark. Do I have too bad drives or is there some other evil at work here?