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one bad mudder · 02-21-2008, 11:47 AM

I have the raid card and cd. That is the next step. Getting a PC to find the HDDs is the issue. After many tries in different slots and different cables I was able to find one of the two in another PC. So I hit it with partion magic and now it works as it should on all the pcs. I have no idea why. The other HDD makes a scary sound when it spins up, I had to put my ear close to it and have it out of the machine away from noise but it sounds like the head is hitting the disk. It never makes it up to speed, it just keeps cycling this sound. I am glad the disk was empty. I plan to open it to make sure a head crash is what happened. then i can smash the disk platter before i throw it away.

02-21-2008, 11:47 AM	#3 (permalink)
one bad mudder Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 14 OS: xp pro	Re: HDD not found I have the raid card and cd. That is the next step. Getting a PC to find the HDDs is the issue. After many tries in different slots and different cables I was able to find one of the two in another PC. So I hit it with partion magic and now it works as it should on all the pcs. I have no idea why. The other HDD makes a scary sound when it spins up, I had to put my ear close to it and have it out of the machine away from noise but it sounds like the head is hitting the disk. It never makes it up to speed, it just keeps cycling this sound. I am glad the disk was empty. I plan to open it to make sure a head crash is what happened. then i can smash the disk platter before i throw it away.