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HDD Woes
Hello,
I have a Compaq Presario Laptop. Everything had been quite smooth until yesterday. I started it in the morning and I got the message "No system disk or disk error". I booted from my CD-Rom using my Windows XP CD and it said it cannot find a hard drive. I was convinced that my hard drive had died on me, but i decided to take the computer with me at work, where we have a lot of screwdrivers (the screws on mine are very specific), and plug the hard drive out and then in, and see what happens. When i arrived I turned my laptop on and windows started without any problems. I kept using it for several hours. I was moving it, rebooted several times and everything seemed okay. Then I took it back home and when I turned it on again, I got the same "no system disk or disk error message". Oh, and also one of the times when it booted well, it crashed shortly after loading windows, displaying some error with kernel. I've been using this installation of Windows for more than 6 months and I havent had any problems with it. Nor have I had problems with my HDD or any other hardware. Now, I am writing this on the very same computer. It turned on okay today. Go figure. Is my HDD dying on me, or it might be a windows problem? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance V. Ivanov |
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Was it on mains power both at work and at home?
Could vibration in transit be causing an intermittant problem? "Sonny" wrote in message om... Hello, I have a Compaq Presario Laptop. Everything had been quite smooth until yesterday. I started it in the morning and I got the message "No system disk or disk error". I booted from my CD-Rom using my Windows XP CD and it said it cannot find a hard drive. I was convinced that my hard drive had died on me, but i decided to take the computer with me at work, where we have a lot of screwdrivers (the screws on mine are very specific), and plug the hard drive out and then in, and see what happens. When i arrived I turned my laptop on and windows started without any problems. I kept using it for several hours. I was moving it, rebooted several times and everything seemed okay. Then I took it back home and when I turned it on again, I got the same "no system disk or disk error message". Oh, and also one of the times when it booted well, it crashed shortly after loading windows, displaying some error with kernel. I've been using this installation of Windows for more than 6 months and I havent had any problems with it. Nor have I had problems with my HDD or any other hardware. Now, I am writing this on the very same computer. It turned on okay today. Go figure. Is my HDD dying on me, or it might be a windows problem? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance V. Ivanov |
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I get that from time to time, never had a dead drive, i just unfluged the IDE connections and repluged them in fixed it EVERYTIME. Try that before you go insane, unplug and reinstall from the mobo and drive. If that don't work try IDE2 before concluding the drive is dead. On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:14:55 +0100, Andy Lee wrote: On 30 Jun 2004 01:00:47 -0700, (Sonny) wrote: I've been using this installation of Windows for more than 6 months and I havent had any problems with it. Nor have I had problems with my HDD or any other hardware. Now, I am writing this on the very same computer. It turned on okay today. Go figure. Is my HDD dying on me, or it might be a windows problem? Most likely the HD You do have backups of your data? If not do them now. No System Disk is a common sign the the disk is not well and will most likely die very soon Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance V. Ivanov |
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"CWatters" wrote in message ...
Could vibration in transit be causing an intermittant problem? Yes, I believe that this is the issue. Is there anything that can be done about it? "Andy Lee ) wrote:" Most likely the HD You do have backups of your data? Done that already. ": OCZ Guy ) wrote:" I get that from time to time, never had a dead drive, i just unfluged the IDE connections and repluged them in fixed it EVERYTIME. Try that before you go insane, unplug and reinstall from the mobo and drive. If that don't work try IDE2 before concluding the drive is dead. Sorry I have to ask but, how do you plug/unplug IDE and IDE connections? regards, V. Ivanov |
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