HDD detection error

[TamerHan]

Hello all. Just seem to be having the following problem with my computer and was hoping someone might be able to help me out.

After a recent crash on my WinXP PC, I did a reboot but was faced with the error message "SYSTEM BOOT FAILED, REPLACE DISK AND PRESS ENTER" (or something similar). I though this might have been resolved by another reboot (which usually seems to work on many errors) but on this occation it didn't work. After going into the BIOS, I noticed that it wasn't detecting either of the two hard drives that I have on the system, even thought the detection of them have both been set on AUTO. Can anyone please help me with resolving this problem, as I urgently need to have access to the computer.

Thank you all in advance. Your help is greatly appriciated.

 

[Grenage]

That error message usually occurs when a drive has died.

I would remove one of the hard drives from the computer, ensuring that the remaining hard drive had it's jumper set to master/primary.

Repeat with the second hard drive and if one of them gives you the same problem as before, it is almost certainly the culprit and has died.

 

[Chr1sUK]

You also get this message when you have a Floppy Disk in the drive!

It's not that is it?

If not, do as Grenage suggests

 

[TamerHan]

Problem solved.

Luckly it wasn't as serious as grenage thought. All I did was to disconnect the secondary hard drive, switch the PC on, and once it boots up, shut down and connect the secondary drive on again. Don't have a clue what caused the problem but I think I'l consider myself lucky on this occation.

Thanks you for helping anyway.

 

[Grenage]

Glad to hear it is up and running, perhaps a loose connection.

Back up the data on the drive though, just to be sure. A small effort goes a long way for curing big headaches at a later date.

 

[chenwenjun]

hi, there,
I got similar problem, but greater,
it was 4 years old laptop
it was IBM 20 GB, the user told me that the system just suddenly off, and I tried the bios, no hard drive detected, I tried with my tools I have (fdisk, sfdisk, pqmaic6,diskman,lformatter1.1 and so on)
all tells me no hard drive found!

and I unplug the drive and try another one, which was found readily....
thanks
wenjun

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