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Hi Jellybean, yes I did, i have taken your advice and attached an old HDD.

The PC is now operating perfectly, although the new HDD is only 20G

Thanks for the help everyone, any ideas what happened to my HDD?

Hello,that is brilliant.

HDD can just fail.Some times they seem to last for ever some times a few months or they are dead whan you bought them.

It could of been damged due to a bad shut down or a power outage some time in the past.Hence drive became faulty and eventualy died.
There are a few things that can cause this issue,faulty mainboard,power supply.

Annoying for your drive to deveope a fault or die.But it is great your computer is up and running.

JB.

There are small printed-circuit controller boards in side the drives-- if there's no odd noises from a failed drive-- this board is often the culprit...