Hard drive is dead!!!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!

[krupini]

I was working on a computer when all of a sudden the computer restarted, and I got a message saying "PLEAse insert boot device" or something. I went to the bios setup to make sure that my hardrive is detected and that it's my boot device. MY motherboard did indeed detect my hardrive correctly. And the red button indicating harddrive activity was working. I decided to format my harddrive, but the drive c: could not be found by DOS. I took out the hardrive and inserted it into my other computer (newer one) but the harddrive still could not be detected neither by DOS nor by Windows, but motherboard did detect it. The harddrive also doesnt seem to have any noise coming from it. I checked the harddrive and none of the pins were bent or anything. I've been using that harddrive for 3 years, maybe the age screwed it over..... . PLease tell me what I should do. THanx.

 

[dimsum]

may be you can try to put it in into the computer as a seconary drive and see if the OS sees it or not. if it can see it then may be is still ok.. if no.. sorry dude, SOL.

 

[Bleep]

Try this. Get another hard drive and put it in as master by itself. Format and FDISK it. Change it to slave plug the other drive in and hold it in your right hand and give it a really hard flick with the circuit board toward you and flick in a clockwise direction this may get the drive motor to start, try it a couple of times if that does not work rap it right in the middle with a large wooden screwdriver handle. If it get going copy all your important stuff over to the other drive because it will probably never start again. This works about 20%of the time.
Good Luck
Bleep

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Why don't you use your new HD, install your OS, then have your second HD on slave. Copy all the files over :-D

 

[mitaiwan82]

buy a new one =)

 

[LiLRiceBoi]

boot w/ a floppy, fdisk, and format.

 

[Ringer]

Look for a large stack of papers and use as paper weight.....lol...sorry,couldnt resist..

tell us what you working on prior to the event???????this could be the problem...

 

[Passions]

It coudl have been a virus, I saw that a couple of times.

 

[knutp]

You really should try to fdisk the drive! and then format it, and see if it's found now

 

[extro]

Sounds like it's dead if you booted up with a virus-free DOS diskette can't format it. Is is still under warranty? If not, you can take the top cover off and make yourself an attractive, high-tech paperweight.