I spent a few hours looking into a problem and believe the hard drive is acting wonky.
My system (if it helps):
Dell Inspiron 560mt
- cpu: intel dual core e5700
- psu: antec ea-500w
- gpu: radeon 6870
- ram: 4x1 gb ddr3
- hdd: samsung hd1003sj/d
The incident:
I upgraded to the 6870 video card and installed the PSU to feed it. After a week of playing games, the computer froze on shogun 2 (came free w/ card OMG!). I turned off power and tried to restart. After dell menu (set up/boot options), I got a black screen that read "no boot device available."
Relevant info:
BIOS diagnostic says everything is fine with computer, it just wont recognize the HDD.
HDD still spins when computer is powered on.
When I installed the video card, it was such a monster rolleyes that I had to change where the SATA data cable of HDD plugs into motherboard, from slot 0 to slot 3. Everything worked fine inspite of that.
Boot priority is HDD (maybe for SATA slot zero though... but comp has booted fine while HDD is plugged into slot 3)
I tried to conntect the HDD in question to my laptop running xp, via sata to usb, and it doesn't show up in disk mgt.
I searched all over google (gimf) and came up with the samsung drive diagnstic tool ( SAMSUNG Hard Disk Drive ) I don't have floppy though and don't know beans about DOS. Can I boot with this samsung app using USB?
I read something about "fixntldr", but I didn't get it. I am a noob at geekery though, so maybe it would help; yes?
This sticky ( http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...rtition-or-files-in-your-computer-194492.html ) mentions test disk now. Would that help in anyway?
I'm totally in the red financially, so i help this can be a simple fix. Thanks for reading all this and for any feedback. I hope someone can provide a solution, and somebody else can find this thread on google if needed.
My system (if it helps):
Dell Inspiron 560mt
- cpu: intel dual core e5700
- psu: antec ea-500w
- gpu: radeon 6870
- ram: 4x1 gb ddr3
- hdd: samsung hd1003sj/d
The incident:
I upgraded to the 6870 video card and installed the PSU to feed it. After a week of playing games, the computer froze on shogun 2 (came free w/ card OMG!). I turned off power and tried to restart. After dell menu (set up/boot options), I got a black screen that read "no boot device available."
Relevant info:
BIOS diagnostic says everything is fine with computer, it just wont recognize the HDD.
HDD still spins when computer is powered on.
When I installed the video card, it was such a monster rolleyes that I had to change where the SATA data cable of HDD plugs into motherboard, from slot 0 to slot 3. Everything worked fine inspite of that.
Boot priority is HDD (maybe for SATA slot zero though... but comp has booted fine while HDD is plugged into slot 3)
I tried to conntect the HDD in question to my laptop running xp, via sata to usb, and it doesn't show up in disk mgt.
I searched all over google (gimf) and came up with the samsung drive diagnstic tool ( SAMSUNG Hard Disk Drive ) I don't have floppy though and don't know beans about DOS. Can I boot with this samsung app using USB?
I read something about "fixntldr", but I didn't get it. I am a noob at geekery though, so maybe it would help; yes?
This sticky ( http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...rtition-or-files-in-your-computer-194492.html ) mentions test disk now. Would that help in anyway?
I'm totally in the red financially, so i help this can be a simple fix. Thanks for reading all this and for any feedback. I hope someone can provide a solution, and somebody else can find this thread on google if needed.