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    Another Hard Drive Problem

    I pulled an old Seagate Medalist Pro (ST52520A) from my parents old PC (a really quite old 100Mhz pentium) It was working fine in that machine the last time I saw it up and running. However, having packed it in an anti static bag and shipped it home with me on the plane (oops would being in a...
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    Twin Hard Drive Failure?

    I have an interesting problem that I'd like some 2nd opinions on. A friends PC has recently "died" showing symptoms of OK boot and operation from cold, then after an hour it dies and re-starts, or a re-start is required. Upon re-booting the machine it does not see the system disk and asks for...
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    BOOT DISK FAILURE

    Does the BIOS recognise the drive correctly (for its size etc)? Does the Win XP install disk recognise the drive correctly during set-up? You can check this by using the install disk to format and partition the Hard Drive as NTFS. You should see the correct size of the HD (or near enough)...
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    IBM Hard Drives

    I too am quite fond of repairing very old equipment. However the lack or easily available spares does make it pretty tricky. Most of the time these things have been sitting in damp cellars or worse for years also, its a surprise when ANY of the components work. I have a few old bits and pieces...
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    No Hard Drives On Boot

    Have you scanned the disk for boot record/file corruption or surface errors? If the HD will respond to that then at least you are part way there as if it can spin and read etc then its not totally trashed.

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