December 4, 2008 10:02pm pst

1. nobus 1,206,920
1. garycase 12,915
2. Merete 6,500
2. garycase 1,042,730
3. meyersd 4,500
3. PUNKY 723,166
4. nobus 3,200
4. rindi 651,062
5. lrmoore 608,692
5. Callandor 3,000
6. vallis 2,500
6. RobWill 544,707
6. RobSamp... 2,500
6. jason1178 2,500
7. Callandor 521,468
8. JFrederic... 511,361
9. wyliecoy... 2,300
9. sparkmaker 497,210
10. emoreau 2,000
10. honmapog 493,347
10. sandybridge 2,000
10. gsnshankar 2,000
10. Netman66 2,000
10. fredshovel 2,000
11. SysExpert 474,158
12. donjohnston 461,446
13. Darr247 385,760
14. andyalder 377,359
15. Mikal613 346,125
15. mds-cos 1,520
16. ET0000 1,500
16. from_exp 327,219
17. andyalder 1,418
17. lnkevin 280,442
18. f-king 1,000
18. younghv 1,000
18. knoxzoo 1,000
18. tsmvp 274,295
19. jamietoner 268,878
20. croberds 261,635
21. leew 248,537
21. giltjr 960
22. RQuadling 800
22. hdhondt 244,319
23. batry_boy 232,960
23. eatmeima... 664
24. PCBONEZ 209,076
24. mgonullu 600
25. PUNKY 500
25. socalsupe... 500
25. garycutri 205,650

1. Callandor 5,618,963
1. garycase 12,915
2. Merete 6,500
2. garycase 4,440,063
3. meyersd 4,500
3. nobus 4,333,050
4. lrmoore 3,895,729
4. nobus 3,200
5. Callandor 3,000
5. rindi 3,098,188
6. vallis 2,500
6. RobWill 1,799,583
6. RobSamp... 2,500
6. jason1178 2,500
7. SysExpert 1,789,528
8. PUNKY 1,731,722
9. leew 1,627,906
9. wyliecoy... 2,300
10. emoreau 2,000
10. gsnshankar 2,000
10. sandybridge 2,000
10. sparkmaker 1,500,296
10. fredshovel 2,000
10. Netman66 2,000
11. JFrederic... 1,491,493
12. donjohnston 1,404,213
13. Mikal613 1,383,150
14. andyalder 1,241,996
15. jamietoner 1,169,294
15. mds-cos 1,520
16. hdhondt 1,023,759
16. ET0000 1,500
17. andyalder 1,418
17. rid 993,934
18. willcomp 961,684
18. f-king 1,000
18. knoxzoo 1,000
18. younghv 1,000
19. PCBONEZ 822,661
20. jhance 811,413
21. giltjr 960
21. honmapog 806,626
22. RQuadling 800
22. dovidmichel 745,279
23. meyersd 659,293
23. eatmeima... 664
24. LucF 634,414
24. mgonullu 600
25. PUNKY 500
25. socalsupe... 500
25. mikebernh... 634,293

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Hard Drive Failure

Asked by mtgcpc in Miscellaneous Hardware

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My system was working fine, no sign of trouble. This morning I turn it on and get a "Non-System Boot disk" error. I switched hard drives and the new drive booted up no problem. I also tried fdisk from a boot disk and I received a no hard drives found error.

Of course I would like to get the old drive working or at least see what I could salvage off of it. When the old drive is connected, I do see a green light, so it appears that it is getting power, however, it doesn't seem to be doing anything. I can't hear anything going on before I get the message.

I went into the BIOS and see that it doesn't seem to find the drive.

I don't understand what happened. The hard drive is only 2 years old. There were no symptoms leading up to this.

Does it sound like the drive is salvageable? I know of some places that guarantee that they can get the data off, but they are expensive. Is there anything I can try before taking that route?

My system is a dell desktop. 700mhz 20gb running windows2000 professional.

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