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My HD is dead.


Junior

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It fiannly kick the bucket... sometimes I am greeted by a nice clicking sound.... other times it will start to boot and Hault in the middle of the boot sequence.. I used Maxtor's Maxblast utilities (before today, when I noticed a problem) and it said it was fine. I zeroed the drive (low level format) formatted the MBR and reset the Bios... only to find out it was the drive and not the Bios.... I noticed the problem after i had installed Xp one time, then after trying to install XP again it would not format the Drive ntfs... or it would have errors during the file copy...

I'm pissed... ohh well I'm picking up a new HD this week... but I don't have broadband till I get my system up and running again... not to mention all the data I will lose.... :evil: :x

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Ouch! Makes me wish I had another drive ASAP. Mine will have to wait till the first of the year, I hope.

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Thats a drag man! Can never have to many Hdd's. Good reason for regular backup's too.

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No, you're just sick, man, sick.

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hehehe - "can never have too many drives" lol

I am the perfect example of that.. hheheeh

All wrapped up ina a Chieftec case;) and rounded off witha sweet AMD XP proc. 8)

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Well I'm back up after a gruling day and a half with no puter... a 20 gig loaner is in this right now(Thanks)... running XP, and a nice upgrade of a 256 MB dimm of PC133 to go with my stick of 128MB PC133.... you could say this was a minor upgrade project... now to look for a BIOS that will allw me to have larger than a 30 GIG HD.

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  • 4 weeks later...
  • 5 weeks later...

a lot of depends on where and what you formated it with...

What os...

using.. format?

there is an fdisk limitation fix posted in these forums...

or ya could use a boot disk made from Windows ME.

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  • 7 months later...

yeah... i remember saying that when i got a 250mb hdd.  I was a god... now you can't even load an os on a 250.

You could still install a small linux distro to a harddrive like that. Heck some linux distro's can install onto a floppy -- they use these for cheap firewalls etc.

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