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bhauser
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I installed a new harddrive as a slave. After a reboot for the install I was able to do a few things with it like burn a CD browse the net, get email... Walked away and now the computer reboots continualy as soon as it gets tothe XP home splash screen. This is coming from the Master drive which is about a year old. There has been NO indications of any issues, noise, data loss, random shut downs..nothing!
I can put another (master) drive in the maschine and it comes up fine. I have taken the offending drive and tried two differen ways to set it up as a slave on my other machine. Each time it shuts my other machine.
People are writng about scandisking, renaming files, blah,blah, blah.I can't do this because I can not get it up long enough to even get it to boot in safe mode.
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Chuck
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Well, Since you have two machines that give the same simptems with same hard dirve I woud say that the hard drive is the prob. Did you try and use the HD in question as a master in both PC's? If it does the sma ething as the master then I woudl lay money that it is the hard dirve. If you realy want to run scan disk use win98 boot disk. You will not see the ntfs partition but it will scan the disk for you. Also you may want to check the disk manufatuers web site. Most offer diffrent types of dos based diagnostic tools to check the hard drive. That may be better then beeting your head aginst the wall for few days slaving and un slaving a drive.
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Edited by Chuck on October/09/2004 at 10:53am
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The problem was a bad hard drive. One sugestion for some folks is to turn on the HDD detect option on in your bios. It would depend on what bios you have. It will warn you at the post (boot time) if there is a bad hard drive.
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Hi allow me to take this opportunity to introduce myself my name is Bill & I am totally new to this forum but not to Hardware, and just for the sake of deduction
I would want to know what the offending HD would do if I had swapped out the ribbon.
You see it might be one of the pins on the ribbon header connector that is tweaked & it gets put rite when you unplug then replug it back in.
I have seen more than a few PC's act like this
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Hold the HD in your hand @ boot up to see if you can feel it spin up (Just ground yourself)
I do it all the time no bigg!
But if you are worried just lay your forearm against the chassis during this step that will ground you.
Also try to set the offending HD all by it's self with no Slave & with no Jumper on it at all & with a new Ribbon
Then enter bios & take a look to see if it is seen by the bios
PS: these are steps I use all the time to deduce what the prob is but of course it has to be said that all steps are just suggestions, & by no means a professional opinion
Good Nite
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Edited by Xproject on November/26/2005 at 10:01pm
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Thanks Bill. Great info.
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Likewise Chuck
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