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Originally Posted by Gavin78
Have you checked the drive for any bad sectors?
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nah i hav'nt, not sure if it will keep windows loaded for long enough...can i do this without windows?
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Originally Posted by budwieser
Check all the cable connections mate and unplug the other Hard drives.
What does it say in POST? Any indication as to the Hard drive itself?
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when i took it out the cable's seemed fine but i will go over them properly when i put it back it.
If i was to start it now it would probably load without saying anything about it, but when it crashes and try's to reboot it just says hard disk failure, press f1 to continue and that's all ?
it is an old pc i'm guessin the psu maybe about 10yrs old ! i do have a spare 300w but it would mean losing 100w as it's 400w.
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Originally Posted by Rob
Unfortunately, if it's giving you the hard disk failure at boot up then you are in trouble. Chances of it staying stable for any lenght of time to extract information from it is low.
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i was thinking this but, guess i was just willing to try anything but sitting there again...
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Originally Posted by Rob
IDE Hard drives are now going to be quite old, and relatively low capacity. SATA was already taking over some five years ago. A replacement IDE connector disk could be a challenge.
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yh, i was thinking that it was old and tbh the stuff i was putting on there for um they probably wouldnt use..the thought's were there but that wouldve been it, it wouldve been mainly an internet comp after about a week once the novelty wouldve worn off
i was just hopeing it wouldve lasted longer than one night !!!
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Originally Posted by Rob
Are there any checker utilities available from the drive manufacturer you can download, and brun to a CD boot disk you can then run? You can also try setting a chkdsk option. Perhaps you can beeot to safe mode or command prompt instead of the full windows?
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pass, i'm not sure...i think it may have been a barracuda, not sure but will look into it and see what i can find.
Thanks everyone for your inputs aswell
