Hard Drives Not Booting

[rwmega]

How long do Hard Drives usually last? My Maxtor 40Mb drive will not boot at all. I can't believe that it would die already but it could be power supply related problem too. Any suggestions? When I go into setup it can't dectect the drive and states - Recommend Replace drive. So many thing lost! Ugh!

 

[CreativeTom]

Originally posted by: rwmega
How long do Hard Drives usually last? My Maxtor 40Mb drive will not boot at all. I can't believe that it would die already but it could be power supply related problem too. Any suggestions? When I go into setup it can't dectect the drive and states - Recommend Replace drive. So many thing lost! Ugh!

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