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Hard drive hangs at POST
28-01-2009 3:06 PM
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When I turn on my PC it detects the "real" IDE drive and then goes on to detect the SATA drives (but says detecting IDE drives). if I have the Maxtor plugged in, it now hangs at detecting IDE drives. If I unplug it, it will detect the other 2 drives and my dvd-rw. i've tried plugging the Maxtor into other sata ports, changing the sata power connector, praying to arcane gods of PC goodness, but all to no avail, no matter which slot I plug it into, which sata cable I use or which PSU cable I use, as soon as I plug in the Maxtor it hangs.
Its quite annoying because all my good stuff is stored on the 500GB drive, ideally I would like a solution where I can continue to use the drive. Its a new drive, 3 months old so has 2 years 9 months warranty left, but I really don't want to have to RMA it unless it is the only real viable option.
Help?
Re: Hard drive hangs at POST
28-01-2009 3:30 PM
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28-01-2009 3:39 PM
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28-01-2009 4:16 PM
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I was actually looking at one of these the other day http://www.storagedepot.co.uk/Enclosures-and-Cases/sc884/p640.aspx.
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28-01-2009 4:39 PM
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28-01-2009 5:24 PM
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I hope this helps
Re: Hard drive hangs at POST
28-01-2009 11:34 PM
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A lot of bios wont boot if the find 2 drives with a partition set as active on them so if you had a drive which was active and installed windows to a second drive this could causes it. If windows boots from the first drive and then loads the second its ok but if it boots directly from a second drive it may not like it.
see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/228004
if you have 2 active partitions you can change them as follows
Open up a command prompt and type DISKPART.
Type LIST DISK
Type SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the old Win98 drive)
Type LIST PARTITION
Type SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the active partition you wish to make
inactive)
Type INACTIVE
Type EXIT to exit DISKPART
Type EXIT again to exit the command prompt
Reboot
Re: Hard drive hangs at POST
29-01-2009 3:53 PM
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29-01-2009 6:50 PM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Hard drive hangs at POST
30-01-2009 12:14 PM
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30-01-2009 12:23 PM
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then you have a dead disc.
Does it spin-up at boot time?
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Re: Hard drive hangs at POST
30-01-2009 12:43 PM
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I'm not sure if it spins up or not, its a very quiet hard drive and I have several fans that enjoy making noises. I'm going to try the external USB option, I can get a cheap one from Aria, the theory being if I *can* get it to work through that, I may be able to use seagate/maxtor tools to examine the drive for errors, well thats the theory anyhow, I just am not looking forward to taking my PC apart again
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30-01-2009 12:57 PM
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Re: Hard drive hangs at POST
07-02-2009 2:02 PM
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I've put in a support request with Segate (they bought Maxtor) and so far have not heard a sausage from them, which isn't good, by the time they get back to me the warranty will probably be out of date.
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07-02-2009 2:29 PM
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I took the disc out and connected it externally, after the PC had booted, with no luck at all. I even tried it connected externally to two other PCs with no luck.
Data recovery was too expensive so thought I'd lost it all.
I took it along to a local PC shop who connected to one of their PCs and managed to get about 54GB off (ie nearly averything) before the drive gave up for ever.
Luckily it was still under warranty so I obtained an RMA and packaged it off
Good luck, as I know what it's like to lose a drive - I've lost around 4/5 in the last 18 months
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