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Hard Drive Crashed, I think!

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05-Apr-2007, 02:43 PM #1
Hard Drive Crashed, I think!
OK I had a XP running fine on my system but my 160 gig ATA maxtor was getting full. So I gota 400 GB SATA Seagate. I slapped on the new drive opened Windows, so far so good, the drive is recognized. I went into Windows disk management created 2 10Gig drives on the new drived. I also noticed that the old drived had about 25gigs unallocated. So I made a new partition out of it. After reboot I can't even get into windows. BIOS recognized drive. But will not boot. I tried to look at the drive on another system by attaching it as a secondary master. It found it, it shows up in device manager, but not as a new drive. What's going on. I am going to post this and reboot so I can get the exact error. I will post error when I get back up. Please help!!!!!!!!!!1

OK got it, it's "boot disk failure

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05-Apr-2007, 04:11 PM #2
I doubt your hard drive crashed just like that, you messed with your existing systems HD and mucked it up. I have done something similar with a system that I am trying to work with 3 different HDs. I am able to boot it by pressing F8 while the BIOS is opening and then can choose which HD I want it to boot from and that works, but no other combination can get my computer booted.

Try restarting it and pressing F8 or other magic keys while it is booting the BIOS.
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05-Apr-2007, 04:15 PM #3
That didn't do it either, thanks though. I appreciate any other suggestions. As much as I might want to I don't think throwing the drive against the wall will help!
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05-Apr-2007, 08:38 PM #4
Sounds liie somehow you blew away the mbr. Boot to XP cd and choose "R" for Recovery Console...at promot "fixboot" then enter then "fixmbr" the enter should restore it.
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05-Apr-2007, 09:30 PM #5
IF it says "DISK BOOT FAILURE,INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" Then

1. Enter Bios,Load default option ,try

2.your motherboard can't detect your HD.Enter"Bios",and check "IDE HDD AUTO DETECDION"". Be sure that the HD is connected to motherboard correctly.May be you should change data wire

3.Your HD had bad sectors.

and Rich-M‘s suggestion is also helpful.
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06-Apr-2007, 12:31 AM #6
OK I did what Rich said (or tried to anyway). But setup could not find a valid drive. I even push enter to install XP fresh, but Setup couldn't even find the drive. BIOS sees the drive just fine. Any other suggestions?
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