Hello I am s.kasinath.

I am new to this forum .

I am recently encounter following problem.


My system is compaq presario sr1630il.

OS:- windows xp professional with sp2

memory 512MB RAM

I have two hard disks each of 80GB.

Each hard disk is partioned 40GB each and formatted as NTFS.

First harddisk drives "C" and "E". "C" is system drive.

second hard disk "D" and "F".

system has a dvd writer and floppy drive.

First hard disk is western digital and second one is samsung.

Recently I ad a hardware problem (system suddenly freezed after booting).The HP hardware engineer has changed the motherboard and rectified the problem.

After this when ever I shutdown and start the system system boots and goes to chkdisk
and checks second hard disk dirve "D" comes ok and I could use and access normally.

Whenever I restart the system instead of turning off ,sytem boots and
1) somtime goes to chkdisk to drive "D" and reports bad MBR like that

and In MYcomputer "C" and "E" drive of first disk is shown and works normaly.
But second hard disk only drive "D" is show and it could not be accessed .

2) sometime task bar displays new hard ware and the same pronblem as shown in (1).

3)somtime it boots and give the same problem as showm in (1).

kindly explain and guide me solve this problem.

skasinath

Hi welcome to PCHF it sounds like the D drive has a problem. The first thing to do is backup all important data off the hard drive. Then test it with this software SAMSUNG Hard Disk Drive - support - utilities if faulty will need to be replaced