Harddrive won't detect anymore?

[SoundTheSurrender]

I have a older 40 gig IBM harddrive that will not detect at all in the bios. Before it worked fine, now it won't detect at all. It powers up, no cliicking, but it doesn't show up. anything I can do?

I have tried other IDE cables... still a no go.

 

[corkyg]

Get an old DOS boot disk, and boot with it. Then run FDISK and have it look at your old 40 GB drive. If it can't see the drive - it is probably muerto.

 

[Matthias99]

There's no point to doing that if it's not showing up in the BIOS... the BIOS has to see it before it's available to the OS.

 

[stevty2889]

Was this drive already in the computer and was previously working, and just quit, or were you trying to add it in to a computer that had been running without it? Did you double check the jumper settings?

 

[bendixG15]

If the cables and master/slave settings are okay
and the BIOS doesn't see it, then its usually dead.

The only other thing is if the drive was formatted with
"third party" software, then look there for answers..

Suggest you download the drive manufactorer's diagnostic
programs and give that a shot.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

It was working fine, but my friend said sometimes there would be this boot error that would come up, so he would restart a couple times and it would load up then. I don't hear clicks, and it powers on.

I don't know how i could go to step 2, when step 1 doesn't work. It doesn't show up at all.

When it was working it was working, then it just gave up i guess. NOTHING was changed.

 

[imported_Tick]

Sounds fubared. Sorry dude.

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Originally posted by: Tick
Sounds fubared. Sorry dude.

I don't want to hear that

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah does sound like the drive has died, but if you have another PC you can try it in, or another drive you can try in that PC, that would help to be sure the drive is bad, and it's not something else.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Have you tried switching IDE channels?

 

[PCHPlayer]

Sounds like another IBM 60GXP has bit the dust. Sorry...

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

well, good thing i only use western digital. I had to sacrafice my own drive for his pc since I built it. damn its harsh only having one drive now