No HardDrive after OS update to 2000 with partition magic....

[gottagetalife]

History: P11 266 using 40gig Maxtor hd that was partitioned
with partion magic 5 into 3 partitions (c:6gig D:8gig E:25gig)
running win98se for a year or so now no prob.
upgraded to win 2000 installed on C: drive changing
files system for C: drive to ntf. file system.
.. left D: and E: the way they were (FAT).
got virus! or?
... lots of trouble! Crashed hard!
would not reboot. could not boot up on win2000 startup disks.. can not find file \ntkrnlmp.exe ERROR CODE 7.
Tried win 98 boot disk, emergency boot disk (disk boot utility)
All versions of boot disk gave me
disk io error.
so put partion magic emergency boot disk in....it worked allowing
me to put C: back to fat32 the same as it was... seemed to work.
But boot up to hard drive failed!!!!
thats when bios stopped seeing hard drive.!!!!
I have now used all diagnostics available to me to no avail.
updated bios to make sure.
put in another hard drive and it booted perfectly.
Got new ribbons, rechecked jumpers and pins.
used *Maxtor hard drive utilities* to boot up computer
.. it *found* the hard drive and brought up these errors.
smart enable command failure,
bios extension support failed,
partition information read failure,
ERROR CODE S01
drive recal test failed
smart disable function failed
ERROR CODE UK0E02
ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS..
LBA 0 BLOCKS 0 HEADS 16 SPT 63
MAXIMUM LBA 0
CONGRADULATIONS HARD DRIVE IS NOW ERROR FREE AND
RECERTIFIED.
Bios does not see hard drive, cannot use Fdisk or
Fdisk /mbr cannot put sys files onto hard drisk.
used debug to remove all hard drive info..
used debug to remove all dos partitions
used debug to remove all non dos partitions and clean
hard drive completely.
I have an ibm aptiva and the bios is limited to
what I can do there.
I think it updates a small file to the hard drive
some where to recognise big drives...
not sure! also I do not think debug can access
the drive because it seems to be in protective mode.
?
help please..
I am determined but as you can tell I really do not
know what to do...
ANY help would be so appreciated...
It would seem that the actual drive is fine, but the
io or start up disk info is gone and cannot get it
back on.
Thankyou for any advise you can give me
sam ^_^

 

[kestrel1]

It looks like the drive is faulty. If the drive cannot be seen in the BIOS, it could be a faulty cable. I see you have changed the cables, so that is ruled out. From the errors the drive hasn't passed SMART.
I would replace the drive & throw the old one in the bin. Drives are cheep these days. I have spent hours trying to get old drives working again, but in the end you have to give in.
If you update the BIOS nothing is written to the hard drive. The CMOS chip is flashed with the new software.

 

[garebo]

This seems to be a repost of the same problem.


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