PC issue ;o

MooMoo444 · 29 Aug 2008 at 09:00

I have a problem with my PC

After coming home from work yesterday, when I boot up it tells me to insert boot media.

After more inspection its not detecting the hard drive OR the hard drive has gone boom. Not certain on this but it seems like it might be.

Hard-Drive is a Seagate Barracuda, are they known to go pop? :confused:

If it has gone then I've just lost an ungodly amount of media and work files. I'm hoping its just a dodgy SATA wire or something, though I dont have a second to try it.

Any thoughts guys

?

melbourne720 · 29 Aug 2008 at 10:58

Get this:-

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Use it to have a look at your hard drive, and copy as much as you can to a second drive.

J.B · 29 Aug 2008 at 11:12

Normally with a faulty hard drive it is still detectable in the BIOS just not easily readable, unless of course the intergrated electronics have gone but i've never seen this.

Could try checking your connections or even moving it to another SATA port. Got another machine or a USB caddy you could try it in?

MooMoo444 · 29 Aug 2008 at 11:15

I tried a different SATA socket and still no go. No second PC either sadly. It will attempt to boot from Vista CD though but as it cant find a HDD it will just crash.

mp260767 · 29 Aug 2008 at 12:02

have you got another cable you can try ?

GhostlyPea · 29 Aug 2008 at 12:03

Chances are the SATA cable has broken, just try a new one. Have you had any power surges or blackouts recently?

- Pea0n

MooMoo444 · 29 Aug 2008 at 12:06

Already said I dont have a second SATA

, also no power surges that I know of. I shut it down yesterday and it wanted to windows update so I let it, thats the last I saw of it working.. though Vista update shouldnt affect my PC components :\

melbourne720 · 29 Aug 2008 at 13:36

1. remove hard drive.
2. boot from 2nd hard drive or knoppix CD

If the hard drive has gone, then it won't let the PC boot. I have that happen when it was a hard drive dying that wasn't the system drive, and it wouldn't let the PC boot because it was dying.

Grimgoth · 29 Aug 2008 at 13:40

MooMoo444 said:
If it has gone then I've just lost an ungodly amount of media and work files.

Hate to say this too late, but backup, backup, backup.....

Is the drive even powering up when the rest of the pc powers up? (ie can you hear it spin?)

Gunda · 29 Aug 2008 at 14:28

also check bois to make sure it is set to auto detect your disk and not somehow set itself to no disk or something.

MooMoo444 · 29 Aug 2008 at 16:43

I cant actually hear if it spins or not because of all the fans in the Antec 900 :rolleyes:

Taught me a lesson though - get an external HDD and save everything twice.

Namistai · 29 Aug 2008 at 19:22

Disconnect the fans and then have a listen