@ peter G :
Greetings Peter, I will try to give some more informations about my experience.
> 3. Your hard drive is recognised in the BIOS IDE
> detection but displays a primary hard disk failure error.
> This is something to do with corruption of the boot
> partition?.
in my case, it was...
@ khaled2000 :
at least, your problem doesn't seem to be exactly similar to mine... maybe try the disk on another computer...
@ wyldeyes :
for sure, this is not an isolated incident... Finaly I think I will have to throw out my hdd. had luck to save all the datas at the begening !! I...
@edfair :
ok, let's say that the BIOS tries to read the sector 0 before the *boot* page. After I zero-filled the drive, I also reinstalled Windows 2000 and it didn't work. Do you think I should use some 98 or DOS fdisk in order to make the mbr better ?
At least, I have received new firmwares...
Hehe edfair... seems like you didn't read the whole post (that becomes quite long for sure ;o). This is not a boot problem at all, the message comes before the boot sequence. The message would be the same if I moved the disk to secondary slave if you want... don't know how to say/write it...
Hi jni,
I think some of my explanations have been forgotten.... May be my post was too long and there were too many explanations...
Anyway, I explained that I recovered all my datas correctly and that I low-level formated (zero-filled) the disk in order to repair it. This means I do not have...
Hello guys,
I come to you because I have a problem that strongly looks like yours. Let me enumerate all the symptoms :
I was working on my computer a few days ago when it suddenly crashed (not an 0E error or something, it just shut down and reboot). I have Windows 2000 and this symptom may...
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