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mipia 10-09-2008 06:56 PM
Looking at CGSecurity but BIOS can't see failed hard drive so...
 
I'm sorry but I have a stupid question.
My wifes 2nd hard drive failed I'm guessing physicaly by the knocking sound, wind down sound and a fail at the BIOS check.

So I have to ask, before I start looking more into this:
Since the hard drive can't even be loaded at boot how would I even get an application to recognize it?

htnakirs 10-10-2008 02:03 AM
You can't.
But exceptions do occur. Best try.

DragonSlayer48DX 10-10-2008 03:44 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by htnakirs (Post 3305850)
You can't.
That's pretty much the case. The 'knocking' and 'winding down' sounds are caused by a physical fatal error in the drive unit (e.g. a head crashed or the motor fried), and the HDD ROM attempting to initialize it. When it can't be initialized, the HDD ROM gets stuck in an endless loop and won't talk to BIOS, or anything else.

archtoad6 10-14-2008 09:45 AM
I agree -- it's probably DOA.

Q: Does it do its "play dead" thing immediately on boot when the machine has been off & it is relatively cool?


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