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ok, what have I missed???
system boots straight to
"non-system disk, please insert...etc" insert boot disk, C: 'invalid drive' remove hard drive and configure in separate machine as secondary master, xp detects new hard drive, correctly identifying it as a fujitsu but it doesn't appear. Drive can be heard spinning up with none of the normal thermal calibration error noises ok, duff drive I think, being a belt and braces sort of bloke I put it back into it's own case and boot from PC-check all HDD tests passed??? being suspicious I reboot from seagate tools and run the generic test - all passed??? rebbot from boot disc, C: - invalid drive back into spare machine, still not visible (on both master and CS jumper settings) ok, I must have missed something obvious here anybody??? polly |
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polly tito wrote in message ... system boots straight to "non-system disk, please insert...etc" insert boot disk, C: 'invalid drive' Usually seen when the boot code cant see what looks like a bootable partition on the drive. Thats an active primary dos partition. remove hard drive and configure in separate machine as secondary master, xp detects new hard drive, correctly identifying it as a fujitsu but it doesn't appear. Usually seen when there is no formatted partition on the drive. It will be visible in the Device Manager and Disk Management but not in My Computer etc. Drive can be heard spinning up with none of the normal thermal calibration error noises The recalibrations heard with a faulty drive arent thermal recalibrations, they are recalibrations done when the drive cant read the data off the platters. ok, duff drive I think, being a belt and braces sort of bloke I put it back into it's own case and boot from PC-check all HDD tests passed??? Thats just testing the physical drive, not that there is a properly formatted and loaded active primary dos partition. being suspicious I reboot from seagate tools and run the generic test - all passed??? Ditto. rebbot from boot disc, C: - invalid drive You'll get that if it isnt partitioned and formatted. back into spare machine, still not visible (on both master and CS jumper settings) ok, I must have missed something obvious here Yep. You just dont have it partitioned and formatted most likely. anybody??? |
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while you have it in the other pc, run fdisk and see if it can read the
drive info or boot from a startup floppy or cd and check it in it's own machine |
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"polly tito" wrote in message
... system boots straight to "non-system disk, please insert...etc" insert boot disk, C: 'invalid drive' remove hard drive and configure in separate machine as secondary master, xp detects new hard drive, correctly identifying it as a fujitsu but it doesn't appear. Drive can be heard spinning up with none of the normal thermal calibration error noises ok, duff drive I think, being a belt and braces sort of bloke I put it back into it's own case and boot from PC-check all HDD tests passed??? being suspicious I reboot from seagate tools and run the generic test - all passed??? rebbot from boot disc, C: - invalid drive back into spare machine, still not visible (on both master and CS jumper settings) ok, I must have missed something obvious here It wouldn't be a Fujitsu MPG series drive, would it? |
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many thanks, yes, the partition had been wiped
when I was younger, and had more hair, I would have thought of that fdisked,setpart,format and all is fine It wouldn't be a Fujitsu MPG series drive, would it? I think it maybe although belarc doesn't pull that info up and I don't want to pull it out again... do tell polly |
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"polly tito" wrote in message
... It wouldn't be a Fujitsu MPG series drive, would it? I think it maybe although belarc doesn't pull that info up and I don't want to pull it out again... do tell http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27109.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27112.html http://www.hddclassactionsettlement.com/ Read the 3rd paragraph. I've had 9 of them failed in customer's machines and 2 in my own. |
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polly tito wrote in message ... many thanks, yes, the partition had been wiped when I was younger, and had more hair, I would have thought of that fdisked,setpart,format and all is fine Thats always a problem with stuff you do rarely, easy to forget the obvious when it shows up again. Thats why heavy aircraft have proper checklists that are used when the brown stuff hits the fan, so the obvious aint overlooked with rarely seen situations. |
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