hard drive dying or duff CMOS baterry?

Netguy

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Hi

My PC crashed today, as I restarted it, I got a hard disk boot failure error, I could'nt log in through safe mode or anything.I could'nt be arsed with the recovery console malarky so I reformatted the hard drive as I had all my stuff backed up anyway:) but as I restart it and go into the bios, windows does'nt recognise the hard drive? :S (western digtial 200gig SATA) the windows xp install I have is slipstreamed wth the SATA drivers which I'v reformatted plenty of times before. halfway through install, it just froze, i restarted, bio still dont recognise the hard drive.
I switched it off for a few minutes, this time the hard drive shows up in the bios screen :S wierd? Do you think the hard drive is dying or maybe a duff CMOS battery?
I'm having another go at installing Windows, so hope it all goes well.

Cheers
 
Ok, I've managed to install windows ok, but as I restart it, I still freezes up, then have reboot few times.. I really hope this drive aint dying:(
 
Everything seems to be running ok today, I did all the tests using the WD program, it passed the tests fine, Also the temps on the hard drive seem to stay at 39degrees constant, is that normal for a Western digital 200gig SATA?

I've got another Hard drive coming in a few days just incase.
 
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