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Thats blows dude..... |
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hmm thats an odd problem.. i had a kinda similar problem a couple of years ago.. my brother was using internet on my pc and, being win98, windows explorer crashed.. then he reset it without even asking me, and while the hd was accessing or doing something.. so when it rebooted it said 'secondary hd fail' .. and guess what.. the secondary hd was the one that i had all of my tracks on.. so i lost ~150 tracks.. and i couldnt fix it because it was completely fucked .. it would spin up and make a loud clunk noise then try again.. another clunk .. and so on.. so it didnt even register in the bios.. i was depressed for weeks.. i had to go out and buy lots of cds to cheer me up hehe.. but at least your hd shows in the bios, and in device manager.. it means that it's still recognized by the system.. so maybe you could try a reformat of your c: drive and see what happens? or put your d: drive in another pc like someone has said.. if that doesnt work, you might have to go into dos (or windows command prompt) and use fdisk or something.. but dont play with fdisk unless you really know what to do.. |
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so far fleetmouse has given the most sound advice |
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I ran Ontrack on it (thanks Sanguine) and ran a diagnostic scan on ''Harddisk 2'' the test failed due to ''mechanical or electronic failure'', ''defective or incomplete low level format'', ''defective head or cylinder''... sounds ominous, but I don't know if it's even seeing the fucking thing so I don't trust it completely. I've narrowed my options down to 1- getting a new computer 2- bringing it in to the shop 3-fighting on and trying some other shit - there's still some shit I've yet to try, like setting the IDEs to auto... I was just poking around in the case to no avail 4- self inflicted gunshot blast to head 5- who gives a shit, it's all backed up anyway, just take a nap |
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I was warned by a computer geek that setting everything to auto could result in disaster if the user settings were important, but I think I'll try it, I've got nothing to lose. |
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User settings are only important if the hardware is real old. Still I'd write them down - cylinder, head, etc - before setting to auto. I dunno, maynbe the drive is partitioned with one of those arful ontrack disk manager overlay thingies. Is the drive set to LBA mode? Then it's almost certainly safe to use auto. |
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Ok. Update your BIOS, if applicable. That's first. Then, what brand is your HDD? If it's Western Digital or Quantum/Maxtor, then you can go to their respective websites and download the software tools which will help Winblow$ detect it correctly. If else, then do what the dood in the earlier post suggested and test on another PC. Good luck :D |
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