Harddrive not working?...

[boxed]

Last night, all of a sudden my harddrive got corrupted i believe..

Some ActiveX thing froze my pc, and i turned it off with the button on the tower. but after trying to reboot aton of times, it failed on me.

DMI ....

error on disk, blah blah.

Reset Cmos. nothing, tried to reinstall windows xp pro....couldn't even install anything...kept saying it couldn't copy files onto the hard drive. Right now i'm using a 9gig harddrive from my old Dell L series. And its working on my PC. I even tried using that Harddrive on another pc to see if it wants to install windows...nothing keeps on saying error on disk. Is their a way of fixing it? or do i have to RMA the harddrive back to westerndigital?

 

[LiLithTecH]

More than likely the hard drive has gone bad.

Have you run the Western Ditigal HD Diagnostic program?
(you will need to run Data Lifeguard to get error code required for RMA)

 

[boxed]

i tried, but it wouldn't even show up on as a F: drive. I couldn't run the lifeguard test.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Make sure the jumper is set to slave or cable select on the hardrive and try getting into it. Make sure the bios has both channels active if you are putting it in another computer as a slave drive.