PC Help Forum - Hard Drives http://www.pchelpforum.com en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:58:41 GMT vBulletin 1 http://www.pchelpforum.com/images/styles/pchelpforum/misc/rss.jpg PC Help Forum - Hard Drives http://www.pchelpforum.com Ide and Sata Problem http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80918-ide-sata-problem.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:01:40 GMT Hello, this is my first time here and hopefully the last i'm here for support for myself haha

Here are my specs first:

KN8 NEO4 PLATINUM
seagate 80gb IDE
western digital 120gb IDE
western digital 1.5 tb SATA

(all the hd work)

bios was updated to 1.D , newest release

So let's begin,
I plugged all of them, enabled ide and sata options in bios, also set the hard drive as first priority to boot, loaded up winxp cd and formated all 3 to NTFS, i then installed the OS on the sata and let it load.
After logging on to windows, installing drivers and software, i did a restart and that's when i got a problem.

Each time it boots, it reaches "Verify Dmi pool" and right after displays twice "boot cd:" followed by "disk boot failure: insert system disk and press enter"

I don't understand why it isn't loading a second time.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you in advance! ]]> Hard Drives Hibigibe http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80918-ide-sata-problem.html Corrupted File/s NTFS Volume http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80862-corrupted-file-s-ntfs-volume.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:54:55 GMT System: Dell Dimension 8400 P4 w/1.75 Gb RAM WD 80Gb HD (partitioned at roughly 50% allocated to a C: and D:) Running WinXP SP3 Home OS boots... System: Dell Dimension 8400 P4 w/1.75 Gb RAM WD 80Gb HD (partitioned at roughly 50% allocated to a C: and D:)
Running WinXP SP3 Home

OS boots up and runs for the most part. All MS Ofc files will open however; I received a message about 1 corrupt file (.NET v2.0.50727/MSCORWKS.dll could not be loaded. Run Chkdsk /f).

After running CHKDSK /F on boot up, there were many files identified in stage 2 as corrupted and could not be fixed. At this point CHKDSK stopped, never making it to stage 3 and the system loaded windows XP.

I suspect the Master File Table (MFT) has been corrupted but not absolutely sure. In hopes of being able to correct the issue, I downloaded WD diagnostic program which gave a clean bill of health. So, I ran PowerQuest Magic v8.0 ->Check for errors. Results: D: partition was fine with no errors, C: drive found all kinds of files locked and then errored out to the point it rebooted the system.

I was able to use Acronis True Home Image to take a backup image. I thought I might reformat the C: drive and then lay down that image. I question if this would work or not since I believe the MFT to be on the image as a part of NTFS. I'm trying to avoid having to reload the OS from scratch and then all the applications and configuration.

Do you folks have any recommendations? :( ]]> Hard Drives HogWild http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80862-corrupted-file-s-ntfs-volume.html Trying to recover information from Old HD http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80804-trying-recover-information-old-hd.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:55:21 GMT Hello there, My Hard drive from my DELL Inspiron 6000 Laptop failed on me a few weeks ago and I had some stuff on there that I want to recover (if... Hello there,

My Hard drive from my DELL Inspiron 6000 Laptop failed on me a few weeks ago and I had some stuff on there that I want to recover (if its possible).

So I have purchased a USB HDD enclosure. I plugged my old HD in it and connected it via the USB cable that comes with it. I straight away tried to go to My computer and tried to view the files from there. When I click on it (Drive E), it says 'E:/ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.'

The instructor manual that comes with the enclosure is poorly written. It talks about doing something by going into 'Computer Management' and then 'Disk Management'. But I can't follow what I have to do next. Here is how it shows up there :- none Pictures, none Images, none Photos, none Videos - Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting

The HD that I am trying to recover data from is a Toshiba SATA drive btw.

I would be grateful to you folks, if you could help me out. :)

Thanks. ]]> Hard Drives sab456 http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80804-trying-recover-information-old-hd.html Pre Purchase advice for an Extl HDD http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80799-pre-purchase-advice-extl-hdd.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:56:56 GMT I am currently looking to update my system from scratch. I have some large directories which are slowing down my response time and access time... I am currently looking to update my system from scratch. I have some large directories which are slowing down my response time and access time considerably and am looking to buy a High capacity external Hard Drive to take my photograph directories and my 90 Gb music directory.
I have decided to go for a Seagate 1.5 TB 2.0 USB drive. I know nothing about these Hi Cap drives and wondered if someone could resolve some questions for me - many of the reviews are hazy on the basic basics (sic).

All say that the Seagate is 'drag and drop' which I understand. Can you also select the hard drive as a default location for downloads in the same way as an internal drive and is the directory tree and directory and sub directory creation handled in the same way ?

Thanx in anticipation. ]]> Hard Drives 2beor02b http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80799-pre-purchase-advice-extl-hdd.html Question: What do I do with a drive with a broken plug? http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80787-what-do-i-do-drive-broken-plug.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:30:18 GMT *:BangHead: Hi guys. I need help finding a shop that will repair my hard drive. Repair - as you know a hard drive has two types of cable plugs on it.... :BangHead: Hi guys. I need help finding a shop that will repair my hard drive. Repair - as you know a hard drive has two types of cable plugs on it. Data cable (wide plug), and Power cable (narrow plug). My "Data" cable came off of the drive (I'll post shots of it a bit later in the evening). So the drive does power on, but since there is no data cable, I can't get anything off of it. That is all I want to do with this drive. I'll post shots of what is exactly is going on. Meanwhile, what chances do I have in getting any data from that broken drive??

(I'll post pictures of the problem bit later in the evening)

P.S. I bought a new 500GB Hard Drive



Thank You Guys!! ]]> Hard Drives ilyabyk83 http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80787-what-do-i-do-drive-broken-plug.html check raid 0 for consistency - How? http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80767-check-raid-0-consistency-how.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:05:51 GMT Hi, I have raid 0 on my GA-p35... i have 2 disk on raid 0 and second raid disk write me an error i can work normaly on my pc byt intel matrix prompt... Hi, I have raid 0 on my GA-p35... i have 2 disk on raid 0 and second raid disk write me an error i can work normaly on my pc byt intel matrix prompt me to run consistency test. PLS how can i run it on my pc? GA-P35 i have only 2 disk . i think that i have ICH8R (or 10). tahnks for any anser. ]]> Hard Drives ucho1212 http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80767-check-raid-0-consistency-how.html data transfer error http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80752-data-transfer-error.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:15:59 GMT howdy! i'm having a problem with my WD passport 500 GB eternal HD. WD2500ME-01 to be specific. i keep getting these error messages popping up in the bottom right of my windows XP...
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file E:\$BitMap. and also E:\$Mft

E: is the location of the drive, but i don't have any files with those names... please help! ]]> Hard Drives alecsputnik http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80752-data-transfer-error.html Resolved: Dell Dimension 4600 HD Upgrade/Swap http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80570-dell-dimension-4600-hd-upgrade-swap.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:11:07 GMT I'm just trying to Upgrade a Dell Dimension 4600 HD and it's giving me minor fits. Cant get the thing to boot from cd with cd as only boot option, tried multiple xp disks not copies. Removed working HD from another machine, with windows xp installed on it, it will not boot. Tried my HD in it which dual boots linux and Windoze and Linux boots, windoze does not. What am i missing here, this just shouldn't be that difficult.

TYIA,
Tietzer ]]> Hard Drives tietzer http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80570-dell-dimension-4600-hd-upgrade-swap.html XP Pro - Extending hard drive partitioning http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80443-xp-pro-extending-hard-drive-partitioning.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:02:20 GMT :oZ I have a hdd that has been poorly partitioned and am unsure of how to go about correcting this. The hard drive is 250 gb. The boot... :oZ I have a hdd that has been poorly partitioned and am unsure of how to go about correcting this.

The hard drive is 250 gb.
The boot partition is 8 GB. There is one other partition that is 120 gb & the rest of the space is unallocated.

How would I go about enlarging my boot partition to a more reasonable size (maybe half the disk) with the remainder for data storage.

Thanks for the help! ]]> Hard Drives number1redcat http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80443-xp-pro-extending-hard-drive-partitioning.html Auxiliary Drive from DVR http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80403-auxiliary-drive-dvr.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:55:19 GMT I had a non-functioning DirectTV box with TIVO. Before discarding it I disassembled to primarily to take some pictures. ( just bored)... I had a non-functioning DirectTV box with TIVO. Before discarding it I disassembled to primarily to take some pictures. ( just bored) http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostbob/3567783915/

A Google search on the WD800LB hard drive inside convinced me to plug it into my PC before discarding it. Bottom line, after a little trial and error I have a freshly formatted secomd hard drive in my PC. (an older HP Pavilion)

I plugged in the drive in with the jumper set to cable select and turned the PC back on.. HW manager showed the drive in device manager. From there I was able to initialize and format the drive.

Just passing this on. This DVR would have gone to the dump. A couple hours of my time and I have back up storage for my photo files. Saved a few bucks too. ]]> Hard Drives LostBob http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80403-auxiliary-drive-dvr.html WD Sync Driver missing, Help plz http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80351-wd-sync-driver-missing-help-plz.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:17:48 GMT Hi, Hi! I have a WD Portable Harddrive, about a 160 gig that I use for all of my pictures and college work, and recently I lost a cable but got it... Hi, Hi!

I have a WD Portable Harddrive, about a 160 gig that I use for all of my pictures and college work, and recently I lost a cable but got it replaced, when I did so, I plugged the cable in to the pc and the device and suddenly it tried to install the device as if it were unknown. This not being the case as it had worked previously and having tried it on 3 comps, I know that its the device. When I worked it with my laptop it said I needed an extra driver and sent me to the WD website where I could down load the driver, but unfortunately I need to register it, and the Serial Number has rubbed off.

I remember that the driver I need is the WD Sync Driver. So it can synchronize with my PC but I dont know how to get it off the site, any help please? ]]> Hard Drives Pacamania http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80351-wd-sync-driver-missing-help-plz.html Fixed: Installed 500gb internal HDD-stops responding http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80229-installed-500gb-internal-hdd-stops-responding.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:52:53 GMT Hi, i've got a Seagate 500gb internal hdd that was given to me from my brothers old PC. i want to use it as storage. i have installed it in my pc and it works fine for a while. i can see it in my computer and the contents inside it. however after i open it and try to copy something in it, it stops responding and the computer freezes for about a minute.

when the computers starts responding again the HDD is gone from my computer and a pop up message comes from windows which says something like "Delay in writing files to F:".

I have opened the PC up and disconnected and reconnected the wires for the HDD. then when i restart the PC the HDD shows again but the same thing keeps happening. ]]> Hard Drives zkm1223 http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80229-installed-500gb-internal-hdd-stops-responding.html <![CDATA[Switched Disk Config to IDE, can't switch bac]]> http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80146-switched-disk-config-ide-cant-switch-bac.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:34:26 GMT I've had my computer since March of 2008 and four days ago it froze and refused to boot up again, always getting to the Windows XP loading screen, progress bar moving, and staying there for, say, a half hour before finally giving up and going completely black. In the pre-boot hard drive screen, I saw that my C: drive, a Seagate 500 GB, had suffered a SMART Event. My E: drive, two Seagate 1000 GBs striped in RAID 0, was apparently fine.

Earlier today I bought a Western Digital 500 GB to replace the SMARTed Seagate. Unfortunately, my computer uses SATA and has no floppy drives, so the Windows XP boot disc wasn't able to read the WD drive and I couldn't use my RAID/AHCI Driver floppy to enable it to do so. Following advice I found online, I switched the Drive Configuration in the BIOS from RAID to IDE, which allowed me to install XP onto the Western Digital. The aforementioned advice assured me that I would be able to switch back to RAID without problem.

Unfortunately, I can't. Trying to boot the computer in anything but IDE causes an inescapable restart loop when the computer attempts to boot and of course, booting in IDE prevents my E: drive from being read correctly by the computer when it is on.

I very much appreciate any help anyone can provide. I truly do need to get my E: drive running again as it contains all of my irreplaceable documents and such (I do realize it's dangerous to have irreplaceable documents on a RAID 0 volume).

Thanks for reading, desperate for advice,

Jason

I am running:

Windows XP Home SP2
Intel 2 Duo CPU E4500 2.20GHz
4 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
Optiarc DVD RW
Western Digital 500 GB
Formerly: Seagate 500 GB (now dead), Two 1000 GB Seagates: RAID 0. ]]> Hard Drives Rapparee http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80146-switched-disk-config-ide-cant-switch-bac.html Pending: reformatting a external hard drive http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80050-reformatting-external-hard-drive.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:09 GMT hey guys im trying to reformat my western digital 1T external hard drive to fat32 so it will run on my lg dvd player i used windows to reformat... hey guys im trying to reformat my western digital 1T external hard drive to fat32 so it will run on my lg dvd player

i used windows to reformat using command promt format/FS:FAT32 F: it started and failed at some point during the night, now it wont read the hard drive at all, it doesant show up in my computer or when i retype the cmd promt again it comes up as invalid
but it does show up in device manager

any ideas on how to fix this so its formatted to fat32?

thanks
jason

p.s im running vista sp2 ]]> Hard Drives jay_se5 http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/80050-reformatting-external-hard-drive.html Pending: Hard Drive Failing? http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/79967-hard-drive-failing.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:15:52 GMT i was gone from my pc for a month. i come back and it started but started to do a boot loop i turned it off and went to turn it back on but it... i was gone from my pc for a month. i come back and it started but started to do a boot loop i turned it off and went to turn it back on but it wouldn't power up for an entire day. then last night it turned on again and booted into windows but it dosent seem to remember the time. is this hard drive failure or motherbord. (btw all my files are still here) if its hard drive failure can i instal windows on a external drive and boot it up on that. ]]> Hard Drives ibugppl http://www.pchelpforum.com/hard-drives/79967-hard-drive-failing.html