WillGarlick
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- Oct 2, 2008
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Hi, this will be a bit of a ramble, but let me set the scene!
The harddrive in my computer has become sluggish over the last few weeks, and my computer has been behaving oddly, which i didnt really mind as i dont do anything useful with this computer. However, this morning when attempting to retrieve some uni files, my computer would repeatedly freeze when getting to desktop.
I took my harddrive down to the family computer and tried running the harddrive as a slave with that, and neither drive would load (checked jumper settings etc)
I then tried an old (and what i thought was broken) harddrive present in my computer and low and behold it still worked, silly me, all this for nothing!
Ive linked my knackered hard drive to my working one, and it hasnt corrupted it or anything, which was my first suspition with the family one.
When attached, both unreadable harddrives are listed in bios, and windows system tools, but independantly, they will not load their OS and ask for boot info early in the load process.
Is there any hope for either harddrive? the fact they both have the same problem at the same time seems too coincidental for it to be a mechanical problem.
Thanks in advance
The harddrive in my computer has become sluggish over the last few weeks, and my computer has been behaving oddly, which i didnt really mind as i dont do anything useful with this computer. However, this morning when attempting to retrieve some uni files, my computer would repeatedly freeze when getting to desktop.
I took my harddrive down to the family computer and tried running the harddrive as a slave with that, and neither drive would load (checked jumper settings etc)
I then tried an old (and what i thought was broken) harddrive present in my computer and low and behold it still worked, silly me, all this for nothing!
Ive linked my knackered hard drive to my working one, and it hasnt corrupted it or anything, which was my first suspition with the family one.
When attached, both unreadable harddrives are listed in bios, and windows system tools, but independantly, they will not load their OS and ask for boot info early in the load process.
Is there any hope for either harddrive? the fact they both have the same problem at the same time seems too coincidental for it to be a mechanical problem.
Thanks in advance