Hard Disk is not booting
 

Hi,
My samsung HDD is not booting stops at splash screen i installed ubuntu 10.04 on it.
If i connect this hdd as secondary it stops at splash screen,
i also tried to connect secondary to windows also same problem stops at splash screen.
there is no problem with my mobo why because i connect two different hdd's it is working fine.
How can i recover my data......
Please help me...

Thanks
Suresh

try to connect hdd as secondary slave or with external disk box to recover your data.

Thanks for replay,
I already connected as secondary
if i connect this HardDisk it stops at splash screen.

Check hd and see if jumper set to 'cable sel' or 'slave'.

Need some clarification. You state the computer stops as the splash screen. Does this happen no matter which operating system is being used? Is the the operating splash screen or he BIOS splash screen?

jumpers are correctly placed

Hi Michaelk,
Actually it stops at

American megatrends

AMIBIOS (c) 2006 American megatrends, Inc.

PI945G2D Release 03/14/07

CPU : Intel (R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.000Ghz

Press DEL to Run Setup
Press F8 to Boot menu
1024MB ok (8MB shared memory size is used)

Auto-Detecting 3rd Master..IDE Hard Disk ST___
Press F1 to Resume.

Iam using Ubuntu 10.05 OS
And also i get same problem in another HDD which is having Windows xp OS.
I can't Enter into setup if i press F1 and DEL.
If i press F8 also nothing is happening.

If the HDD's are Die is the any solution to recover the data.
And also i connecting External USB CD/DVD ROM to formatt the repair the c partition for windows same problem is observed.

Thanks
Suresh

Have you tried connecting the drives to the 2nd or 1st IDE channels? The 3rd channel might be bad.

It could be a hardware failure of the drives. I suppose it depends on how valuable the data is to you. There are hard drive data recovery companies but they are very expensive. If you have a known working drive of the same make/model you could try swapping circuit cards if you have the skills. It is possible for drives to be the same make and model but have different firmware so be careful.

I Have only one IDE Channel on my mercury mother board
Other HDD's are working good on this is channel.

And also some of HDD's are not detecting iam using seagates DOS tools also it is not detecting.
so shall i confirm it is an HDD is failure?????????

Put it back the way it was originally. Then boot to a live cd and see what data you can access. If you can, get your data off right then. Then work on fixing the issue.