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Hard Drive not found when starting PC
I have a fairly new Levovo (7 months old), the hard drive however is from 2003, I thought I was getting a deal little did I know this drive was sitting on a shelf for 5 years. Anyway, all was great then one day it hags and when I try restarting it, it goes as far as the WINDOWS screen with the status bar on the bottom and never gets any further that. I took the drive out and put it into another machine and when it (the drives are SATA) is in the 3rd SATA slot on the MB the PC doesn't start it just goes to a blank screen. I unplug the suspect drive and the system starts fine. Do I have to trash the drive all together or is there a way to get the data back and put it back onto a new drive?
Try booting from a Linux Live CD such as knoppix in the first instance and see whether the drive mounts.....if it does you can always copy the data to a usb hdd.....
http://www.knoppix.net/
http://www.knoppix.net/
When a drive keeps the system from booting it's generally a short in the power on the drive.
There isn't much you can do about that.
There isn't much you can do about that.
What operating system are you running? Try and boot to the recovery console using your operating system CD. (with the hard disk powered on... I'm assuming you can see it in the CMOS settings screen) Choose the diskcheck option! For windows use the following command:
chkdsk 'DRIVELETTER': /p /r (NOTE: the apostrophes are for emphasis and there are spaces before each / )
Good luck
chkdsk 'DRIVELETTER': /p /r (NOTE: the apostrophes are for emphasis and there are spaces before each / )
Good luck
Just Update your bios by visiting your manufacturers site. if it doesn't helps there are good chances that your hard disk is crashed, if you hear a Tic-Tic noise from your disk then it is crashed. you should use HDAT2 to diagnose and repair your drive. you can download it from following link
http://www.hdat2.com/
Good Luck !!
http://www.hdat2.com/
Good Luck !!
You say "it goes as far as the WINDOWS screen with the status bar on the bottom"
Then the laptop is getting as far as seeing the drive in order to "attempt" to load Windows.
Can you boot to a CD in the Lenovo with disk tools on it? Can these see the contents of the drive?
In the PC what happens if you make the laptop drive SATA1?
Then the laptop is getting as far as seeing the drive in order to "attempt" to load Windows.
Can you boot to a CD in the Lenovo with disk tools on it? Can these see the contents of the drive?
In the PC what happens if you make the laptop drive SATA1?
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WOW! What a geat response. I will resond to each:
rynox:I did try hot plugging in the drive while the power was on still nothing, The data is worth the money to send it off to a service,
Roachy1979: It does boot to a CD so I will try that.
PCBONEZ: Thanks
bigpadhakoo: I will try your two hits. I not hear a tic tic sound, so it is not like there is some indication that the drive is bad.
MASQUERAID: The unit is a desktop and it doesn't make any difference what SATA port i put it on still just sits there and gives me a blank stare.
When i booted into recovery mode and tried to find the dirve C: it was there but would not let view the contents of the drive. I kept on getting command not recognized when I tried to display the contents of the drive.
rynox:I did try hot plugging in the drive while the power was on still nothing, The data is worth the money to send it off to a service,
Roachy1979: It does boot to a CD so I will try that.
PCBONEZ: Thanks
bigpadhakoo: I will try your two hits. I not hear a tic tic sound, so it is not like there is some indication that the drive is bad.
MASQUERAID: The unit is a desktop and it doesn't make any difference what SATA port i put it on still just sits there and gives me a blank stare.
When i booted into recovery mode and tried to find the dirve C: it was there but would not let view the contents of the drive. I kept on getting command not recognized when I tried to display the contents of the drive.
check its file system for errors and repair with chkdisk utility
Heeey, what about me? :-( Seriously though, try it. It normally works for me when I have that problem!
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Loudninja: no tic tic
ok now try this seriously.... go to device manager and uninstall it's driver if it was present there . reboot and check if it is loaded or not, check with your bios if it is recognized by bios or not, if not then you have to move toward hardware tweaks. i'll tell you if issue didn't resolved
Check my first comment...have you run the disk check yet?? Just follow the instructions I gave you. Your drive letter should be C by default! If you have more than one partition on your hard disk, it wouldn't hurt to run the checkdisk on all of them! Peace
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Loudninja: How can I run diskchk if i can't even see the drive on another machine?
bigpadhakoo: The drive will not boot and cannot be seen when i put it into another machine.
bigpadhakoo: The drive will not boot and cannot be seen when i put it into another machine.
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bigpadhakoo: Thanks for the info. I will do that later today.
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I was not able to use the iolo drive scrubber software. I replaced the hard drive and reinstalled the OS and all data. System is running fine.
Looks like connecting it directly to a SATA port while booting causes problems. SATA is plug and play by besign so you could try plugging the data cable in while the system is running, but be wary as this may cause problems as well. if you do this keep the power plugged in at all times, don't play with the power cable when the computer is running.
Other options are if you have a eSATA connecter you can go that way, or use a USB/SATA adaptor or an enclosure. If none of these methods allow you to see the drive, your only option may be sending it off to a data recovery service if the data is that valuable.