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New HDD Possibly Dead

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robbiesd

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Just under a month ago i bought a 200gb maxtor diamondmax 10 IDE drive w/ 16mb cache (model #: 6L200R0)
yesterday i think it may have died or something went wrong
last night i turned off my computer and half an hour later tried to turn it back on.
when i press thepower button i see the splash screen for the mobo and am able to enter the bios but after that screen it just goes blak and stays that way. it will not load windows or go into my recovery partition.
i tried to reinstall windows but it will not boot the cdrom
i am currently running the maxtor diagnostic tools and hope its not dead.

if it is dead and i have to return it for another drive is there any way to recover data? or maybe someone has had a similar problem before with thier hdd and can tell me how to fix it.
 
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i did the powermax diagnostic tests and all showed the drive was fine.
i was really ticked of so i put the new hdd in slave and booted using my old hard drive. the new hdd shows up as a secondary drive and i can copy it all if i want.

my amateur guess is that something went wrong on the part of the hdd that boots win xp? beauce i can access it and everything it just wont boot if its in master and in the primary spot of the ide cable

any way i can get this drive to start booting again without reformatting and recloning?
 
It's possible it is not your hard drive and it is another component that is not working properly. I'd remove everything like your sound card, etc that does not need to be there in order for the computer to run. Just leave the video card, processor, one stick of memory and the hard drive. See if it boots. If it doesn't and you have an extra computer, I'd run Memtest on the memory to make sure your memory is ok.
 
i wont boot from the windows cd. after the mobo bios screen it just stays black and not boot from the hard drive or any other media in the cd-roms/floppy drives

i dont think its any other component as my old hard drive boots perfectly fine (cloned it to new one so all the settings were the same)

ill try running with just the vid card and 1 stick of memory. then run memtest
 
Why can't you boot from a CD? You should be able to if the problem is your hard drive.

If you can get it to boot from the cd you can enter the recovery environment and rewrite the bootsector. That's the part that your bios loads which in turn loads windows.

I forget what the command is, but once you're in there you can type help and a list of all the commands will show up. Look for something that rewrites the boot sector. That should fix it for you.

What gets me is that you can't boot from the cd. That makes no sense.
 
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