Hard drive not detected after memory dump

[rookie4619]

So a few weeks ago my pc got the blue screen of death, and i foolishly turned it off during the memory dump. When i came to power it back up i got the message 'do not detect any drive' or something along those lines. Yesterday just out of interest i tried to power it up and it worked, so i reformatted and installed everything over again. Today i got another blue screen error saying 'unknown hard error', so i powered it down for 10 mins and tryed again. It worked for all of ten minutes. then i got another memory dump screen of death error and my hard drive will not power up on boot. Are there any ways to solve the problem?

 

[BadBigBen]

check the power connector to the drive...

also check the seating of the IDE/SATA cable...

download the drives manufacturers tools to check the drive, it may be damaged...


Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[rookie4619]

thanks for the reply, i fixed it about an hour ago changing some bios settings, not sure how they were related though xD

 

[G0AOZ]

Might be worth running the hard drive manufacturer's disk diagnostics on that drive, just to check it's not developing any bad blocks, problems, etc...

ROGER - G0AOZ.