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Offline Roger The Hat

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"Lost" Hard Drive Completed
« on: Sunday 24 May 09 19:00 BST (UK) »
A friend of mine (really!) had problems with his computer which he thought best rectified by reinstalling XP SP2.

After the initial configuration check all he got were repeated errors stating "XP setup cannot copy x file. Press escape to skip file or f3 to quit".

I took my original XP disk to his house, and got the same result.

Thinking it might be his CD-Rom at fault I put his hard drive into my machine to try and load XP.

All I can get is "Hard Drive Not Found".

1. The drive is not showing up in the BIOS set-up.
2. The drive is jumpered correctly (according to the diagram).
3. The drive was  working, allegedly, albeit very slowly, and with some functions, like sound and connectivity, intermittent.

Putting it plainly, is the drive knackered, or does anyone have any other ideas, please?

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Re: "Lost" Hard Drive
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 24 May 09 19:43 BST (UK) »
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Re: "Lost" Hard Drive
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 24 May 09 21:37 BST (UK) »
Hi Roger  :)

Not really offering a solution but you said that:

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A friend of mine (really!) had problems with his computer

What were the problems that he had?  It might help to diagnose the subsequent problem.


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Re: "Lost" Hard Drive
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 24 May 09 21:49 BST (UK) »
Hi, Gadget,

As I said, it was odd things like running very slowly, loss of audio, internet connection problems. I know the machine was fine earlier in the week, but I also know he's prone to mending things that aren't broken!

Sorry I can't be more exact, but I'm more concerned that the drive wasn't recognised by my own machine.

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Re: "Lost" Hard Drive
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 24 May 09 21:53 BST (UK) »
Is the hard drive SATA?

You need the drivers on a floppy to get SP2 to recognise it, or get / create an XP SP3 install disk.

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Re: "Lost" Hard Drive
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 24 May 09 21:58 BST (UK) »
No, Wul, it's IDE.

It's getting closer to the bin!

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Re: "Lost" Hard Drive
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 24 May 09 22:01 BST (UK) »
What make and drive type is it?

Also does the bios see the hard drive?

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Re: "Lost" Hard Drive
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 24 May 09 22:04 BST (UK) »
Don't bin it! It's probably perfectly readable as a slave drive. I had a complete disk failure and thought I'd lost everything (and no backup, of course  :-[). However, life became rosier when I bought a disk caddy and stuck it in there - all information returned, wagging its tail behind it.

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Re: "Lost" Hard Drive
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 24 May 09 22:09 BST (UK) »
It's a Western Digital Protege, WD400 40GB.

My BIOS doesn't "see" it.
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