- Apr 15, 2000
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Looking at a computer for a professor of mine, he said it stopped working just suddenly. It's an HP Slimline S7000. Powered it on here, and won't go past HP's boot screen, and won't enter BIOS setup when I prompt it to (or atleast, not within 10 minutes of first starting).
When the drive is taken out, it enters setup just fine. So I figure, bad drive, right?
I plug the drive into my desktop with an external SATA --> USB adapter I have, and it powers on, and shows up as an additional hard drive, JUST FINE. I can browse all the files, and even see the recovery partition.
What is the matter with this drive? Is it on the fritz and about to go? Is the boot sector messed up (but why would BIOS Setup not work well then?)
I thought this would be an easy hard drive swap and replace OS, but now I'm not so sure.
Thanks!
When the drive is taken out, it enters setup just fine. So I figure, bad drive, right?
I plug the drive into my desktop with an external SATA --> USB adapter I have, and it powers on, and shows up as an additional hard drive, JUST FINE. I can browse all the files, and even see the recovery partition.
What is the matter with this drive? Is it on the fritz and about to go? Is the boot sector messed up (but why would BIOS Setup not work well then?)
I thought this would be an easy hard drive swap and replace OS, but now I'm not so sure.
Thanks!