Looks like I might have another hard drive going bad on me. The problem occurs whenever I shutdown the computer for an extended period of time and then restart (ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard). During boot, the primary IDE drive is not recogonized by the bios, so I reboot once or twice, and then finally it is seen by the bios. I then get do the Windows splash screen and hear a "Dunk ..... Dunk ..... Dunk" sound - like the hard drive is trying to do something. At this boot the boot process stops, and I'm forced to reboot. Reboot again, get to the windows login and hear the sound again, and I have to reboot. Finally, I'm able to login and windows loads fine.
Once the computer is up an running, everything is fine and I don't hear any strange sounds. I then rebooted and preformed a chkdisc - no problems there. The hard drive is close to 4 or 5 years old now - an 80 GB Maxtor. Maybe it's time to replace it? I hope that is the problem, and not maybe the IDE controller or something else on my ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe.
Once the computer is up an running, everything is fine and I don't hear any strange sounds. I then rebooted and preformed a chkdisc - no problems there. The hard drive is close to 4 or 5 years old now - an 80 GB Maxtor. Maybe it's time to replace it? I hope that is the problem, and not maybe the IDE controller or something else on my ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe.
There is no important data on the drive - it's just used for the OS and installed apps. All my "mission" critical data lives elsewhere and is nicely protected 
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