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Anonymous
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| Posted on Monday, June 17, 2002 - 10:44 am: |
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finally i threw in a little 2 gig drive and formatted and installed WinME on it. All good, no sweat. But when i got into Windows i noticed that my secondary master 120gig drive wouldnt show up in Explorer. BUT another harddrive (40gig) was still there, all data fine. I shut down and went into bios, it said the 120gig drive was not detected. all cables were snug, no reason for it not showing up. i threw in my old C: drive (the first one that "crashed") and bios wouldnt detect it either. i tried both drives on all the IDE controllers (i have 4 IDE controllers), no luck. i tried the C: drive on another machine, it said "drive is ATAPI incompatable" at bootup. so i figured great, both drives wiped out, 140gigs gone. i dont want to format incase the data is still all there, but hell how do i even format them if they cant be detected!? ok so the saga continues... today i tried to boot that machine up and now the little 2gig drive cant be detected. what the hell is going on? my pc is sucking the life out of all my harddrives! can there be a hardware problem on the motherboard, a bios problem, power supply going dead? please help! thanks in advance!
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Mike
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| Posted on Monday, June 17, 2002 - 01:25 pm: |
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Wierd !!!
1. Make sure the Jumpers are set right on the drives.
2.Try setting the BIOS to it's Default settings.
3.You should have a 350-400 watt power supply to run all that stuff. Can you hear the Drive run, disconnect the cdrom and floppys power and only connect up one drive, see if runs.
4.See if there is an update for your BIOS and flash it, maybe it has been corrupted.
5.If you can get a drive to run and get into Windows, check the Device Manager, Windows has probably doubled or tripled everything in it, which will mess it up bad.
5.Try a different IDE cable, can't believe 4 would be bad though.
6.Check or replace the Battery on the Mother Board, that may be going.
7.Set the BIOS to boot to the Hardrive 1st.
8.Check the other settings in your BIOS and make sure they are correct with the Manual.
Try these let me know if any worked.
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COMPUTER DISCUSSIONS » HELP! my computer keeps eating my harddrives! (part 2 of 2)