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  1. thomasquinn

    Urgent - Sata drive no longer boots / shows in bios

    I've never heard of the freezer idea but I'll try anything. No clicking, I've had a drive die like that before. I backed it up before it went. I wish I had that chance this time haha.
  2. thomasquinn

    Urgent - Sata drive no longer boots / shows in bios

    It's not drivers because the other SATA drive works. I don't have another PC with onboard SATA but I have switched prots around. The other drive works in every port and this one doesn't work in any of them. I'm fearing it's just too far gone to bring back. I can feel it spinning though - it's...
  3. thomasquinn

    Urgent - Sata drive no longer boots / shows in bios

    It doesn't detect the drive.. This is probably not a good thing, yes?
  4. thomasquinn

    Urgent - Sata drive no longer boots / shows in bios

    I'll try that now and post once I find out what happens, thanks.
  5. thomasquinn

    Urgent - Sata drive no longer boots / shows in bios

    I have done that a few times but I'll give it another go. Any other ideas?
  6. thomasquinn

    Urgent - Sata drive no longer boots / shows in bios

    Just another fact about this, even though it doesn't show me any information about the drive (Like I said, just shows a blank line and not WD or any size information) I can still select it to boot from. It gives me the "DISK BOOT FAILURE" error. It DOES have an OS installed. 2 actually.. XP and...
  7. thomasquinn

    Urgent - Sata drive no longer boots / shows in bios

    Long story short, my computer has been working fine, no hardware changes or anything like that. I was sitting at my computer and talking on Skype when it rebooted. When it started back up it no longer booted. I checked in the BIOS and it detects my IDE drive and my other SATA drive but for my...

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