Hard Drive Fried?

tikibangout · 12-10-2005, 07:14 PM

I currently have two internal hard drives in my rig. I was unplugging and plugging back in the power in each, and while doing so my power goes out. Now, whenever I start the computer, it gets as far as the Gateway display and then it says hard drive not found.

**linderman** · 12-10-2005, 07:23 PM

you will need to run the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility on the drive / this is usually in the form of a bootable floppy disk

does the bios recognise the drive and report it upon restart ?????

can you hear the drive spin up ?????

have you tried another drive cable ??????

have you tried a diff power connector from a device know to work i.e. cd-rom drives power plug ?????

regards

joe

tikibangout · 12-10-2005, 07:34 PM

I started it up again, and after 10 mins it went to a black screen and at the bottom it said Network selected as first boot device for current boot, now it says Entering setup...., and whenever I hit F12 it says Network selected as first boot device for current boot. Its still saying Entering setup though.

**linderman** · 12-11-2005, 05:26 PM

your boot order is incorrect / its trying to boot from a network youre probally not connected to ?????

change your boot order to floppy, hard drive, cd-rom drive dont forget to save & exit after you make your changes

also the cause of this may well be a dead cmos battery not saving your proper settings ????

joe

12-10-2005, 07:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
tikibangout Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 18 OS: Windows XP Home	Hard Drive Fried? I currently have two internal hard drives in my rig. I was unplugging and plugging back in the power in each, and while doing so my power goes out. Now, whenever I start the computer, it gets as far as the Gateway display and then it says hard drive not found.

12-10-2005, 07:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,433 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	you will need to run the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility on the drive / this is usually in the form of a bootable floppy disk does the bios recognise the drive and report it upon restart ????? can you hear the drive spin up ????? have you tried another drive cable ?????? have you tried a diff power connector from a device know to work i.e. cd-rom drives power plug ????? regards joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

12-11-2005, 05:26 PM	#4 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,433 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	your boot order is incorrect / its trying to boot from a network youre probally not connected to ????? change your boot order to floppy, hard drive, cd-rom drive dont forget to save & exit after you make your changes also the cause of this may well be a dead cmos battery not saving your proper settings ???? joe __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

12-10-2005, 07:34 PM	#3 (permalink)
tikibangout Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 18 OS: Windows XP Home	I started it up again, and after 10 mins it went to a black screen and at the bottom it said Network selected as first boot device for current boot, now it says Entering setup...., and whenever I hit F12 it says Network selected as first boot device for current boot. Its still saying Entering setup though.