i think Suse 9.1 killed my hard drive
I installed Suse 9.1 on a blank FAT32 formatted hard drive and now if I try to boot my system, it freezes. If I plug in my other hard drive with WinXP on it, it loads fine. If I put in both hard drives, it still freezes. :scratch:
I tried booting from my Windows cd and it wouldnt work. The primary boot device is my cd drive, then hard drive and if I have the secondary hard drive plugged in to the system at all, i cant get pass the bios loading screen. it wont boot up at all. without the second hard drive plugged in, i can boot to windows normally without any problems. and when i only have the second hard drive plugged in as the master, it wont boot up either. Any Suggestions? :study: |
Does the drive spin up at all? When you plug in the second drive on it's own, is it set to Master?
Are the harddrive parameters for Drive 0 (Master disk on first IDE channel) correct for the attached drive? |
Just a thought, but have you tried booting a rescue disk, the Suse installation disk in rescue mode, Knoppix or somesuch ? There is still a faint chance they might work, even if the Windows cd doesn't boot. (I have had some interesting things happen with the bios when running Suse, so you're not the first ;)
Cheers, mj |
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the drive does spin but freezes the computer as soon as it does. it is set on CS or Master when its the only drive plugged in. And I dont know about the parameters. how do i check? And i will try to boot with the SUSE disk, but i think i tried that already. |
yeah, cant boot to SUSE cd either.
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i didnt see anything about the harddrive parameters in the bios. i cant check the parameters of the bad drive anyways because as soon as i plug it in, it freezes the computer. also, i played with the jumper setting to see if it made a difference and i didnt, thats the reason i tried CS, I usually have my two drives set up master/slave.
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Are you certain your jumper settings are correct? It really sounds like you've got both set to Master. Good luck with it. -- J.W.
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nah, master/slave
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#1 Tried it with just that harddrive alone, no other drives attached?;
#2 Tried it with just that harddrive on IDE channel 0 as master, and a CD-ROM drive on IDE channel 1 as master?; #3 Tried replacing the IDE cable and run through #1 and #2 again? If all else fails, tried updating BIOS yet if possible? The last thing I can think of is, either the drive has hung it's cylinders out to dry or BIOS has settings that conflict with the C/H/S characteristics of the drive (C/H/S: Cylinders, Heads, Sectors per track. When set incorrectly, BIOS will either complain about hdd controller/drive faillure, or freeze completely on some mainboards.) |
burned up
Were your hd's stacked on top of each other and not spaced with the ventalation holes covered? Just a wild idea. :confused:
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lol, yes, my hard drives are stacked properly.
I have tries only using the one drive, however i didnt try a different ide cable or using my cd dirve and hard drive on the same ide. that gives me hope... im gunna try that. |
tried everything except bios update... for some reason i kept getting error messages when i tried to update.
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last resort.... Taking a magnet to it would probably ruin the hard drive, right? I guess I could try it because the hard drive is useless at this point. i could use it as a paper weight either way.
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I'd try the disk in a different computer before i'd do that, for all you know it could be your own computer that's messing up at some point.. making you ruin a good disk for nothing.
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