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Hard drive not recognized by BIOS

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FaustoRose

Technical User
Jul 12, 2003
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Hi i need help to know what to do, my case is as follows:
I need a little advice, and/or estimation

Operating system:
Windows 98 Second edition (4.10.2222 A)

Physical capacity:
40 GB (Fujitsu MPG3409AT)

Password protection:
I don't use any.

Symptoms/Problems:
I received a pair of "failure signs" (the first a month ago and the
second 10 days ago) when starting the computer when it's the moment
to start reading from the HD i had the message "Drive not ready
-System halted", if i reset the computer the problem continued, but
if i turned it completely off and turned it on again the problem was
gone, but now i had the same problem (the day before everything was
running fine) and now there is no way to get recovered from it.
The bios can't "see" he HD, the motor sounds to be spinning, but my
computer and the computer of a friend couldn't see the HD either (i
tried it at another computer).
I have some information there that's relevant to me (obviously) and
i have some choices:
1 Recover the most important only: About 200 MB
2 Recover most important and another important info: About 2 or 7 GB
3 Recover everything: About 15 GB

Please i hope you can help me about the recovering of my info.
Thank you in advance!.
 
Usually, at this point, you are directed to disk recovery services.
This is a symptom of a board problem on your drive.
You could attempt to replace the board from a drive of the same model, but you are at risk of ruining the new one also.

Ed Fair
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Hi Thanx for your reply:
I tried to change de board already, with the same one, but i have the same problem (nothing happened with the other drive, everything is fine).
So if is another kind of problem... What do you think?
Any suggestion?
 
Over the past year the company I work for have had to replace a bad batch of Fujitsu drives with the model you have stated in most cases data recovery was possible but only if diagnosed quick enough. The fault with these drives is over heating I believe, Before trying any data recovery place drive in fridge (I Know this sounds crazy but it actually helps) for about an hour.

Good Luck

Let me know if this helps
 
Hi M1ckG:
Yes you got the point i think! one sympthom i have is that the drive gets hot, specifically the biggest chip, i got into the fridge (to the freezer) so i'm going to try that...
Thanx!.
I'll be in touch about any further.
 
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