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potwcot · 06-02-2007, 08:30 AM

Hi there all,
Ok for some reason my harddrive is not being recognised, the thing is being found on the BIOS startup, but when it tries to boot up it says disk error. Ok i know i should of backed up my harddrive and all that.
Ok i tried making a ms-dos start up disk so that if it was overloaded i could go on it and delete some stuff, but that didnt work cos when you type cd c:\ is just says c:\ then goes back to a:\ so that doesnt work.
Now i dont know what to do to be honest.
The hard drive is a 20Gb Maxtor 32049h2 well thats what it says in the BIOS.
Also for some reason the light for the hard drive, you know the one that flashes when you load stuff, that light is on all the time,
The day before this happened my g/f was ripping music to it and it crashed XP half way through the cd, the weird thing was even though everything was frozen, the mouse still moved :s
I read one thread on here about maxtor hdd's being put in the freezer, is that just for laptop hhd's or desktops?
My computer is a 1Mhz 512 SDRAM, desktop, top of the range when i first got it :P
So PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!

Also the computer is a 6 year old Dell btw, i bought it when i had no idea about PCs

06-02-2007, 08:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
potwcot Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 5 OS: XP	HELP! Harddrive is not found Hi there all, Ok for some reason my harddrive is not being recognised, the thing is being found on the BIOS startup, but when it tries to boot up it says disk error. Ok i know i should of backed up my harddrive and all that. Ok i tried making a ms-dos start up disk so that if it was overloaded i could go on it and delete some stuff, but that didnt work cos when you type cd c:\ is just says c:\ then goes back to a:\ so that doesnt work. Now i dont know what to do to be honest. The hard drive is a 20Gb Maxtor 32049h2 well thats what it says in the BIOS. Also for some reason the light for the hard drive, you know the one that flashes when you load stuff, that light is on all the time, The day before this happened my g/f was ripping music to it and it crashed XP half way through the cd, the weird thing was even though everything was frozen, the mouse still moved :s I read one thread on here about maxtor hdd's being put in the freezer, is that just for laptop hhd's or desktops? My computer is a 1Mhz 512 SDRAM, desktop, top of the range when i first got it :P So PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!! Also the computer is a 6 year old Dell btw, i bought it when i had no idea about PCs Last edited by potwcot; 06-02-2007 at 08:42 AM.