dvd drive = Hard drive crash?!?
I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. This morning I was copying data from a dvd to my D drive (not the bootable drive) and my computer shut down and wouldn't restart. This is the third time this has happend, exact same senerio. Although it doesn't happen everytime. The first time it said it couldn't find the OS, and the other times it just would just sit there and never load It'll let me reinstall XP but I really need to find the cause and fix it. I have the original HD (bootdrive) and DVD Drive and I added a DVD burner and another HD. When I installed the second harddrive (western Digital 120gb) it came with a special card (highspeed?)I had to install in order to install the drive. And now I believe the dvd drive(that I was using) and the WD HD are running off that card. This setup worked for a year so I'm not sure if that's the problem or how that could then lead to wiping out my C drive which isn't in that mix at all. Any help would be great...as I don't really know where to start.
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What controller did you add? Which drive are you booting and having probs with?
Tex
DO WDC WD1600JB-00DUA0 LBA 149GB Ultra DMA 5
D1 IC35LO8AVVA07-0 LBA 76293 Ultra DMA 5
D2 Not Detected
D3 Not Detected
IDE BUS Master Enabled
Strike the F1 key to continue
Normally I hit F1 and it loads right up. Now it can't find the OS
I boot from the C drive. The C drive crashed all three times when I was copying files from the dvd drive to the D drive.
I'm not sure about the controller I know longer had the instructions for installing the drive. It worked fine for a year. So I guess I did it correctly.
I can show you how to do that without reinstalling and crap. That controller (promise tx2) has had a ton of probs with corrupted filesystems. You need to check their website for bios and driver updates which soothe it a GREAt DEAL. You need to do BOTH not just the drivers !
It looks fromyour post as if both hard drives are on the same cable on the promise. Thats bad.
Move the boot drive with teh OS back to the MB headers. The best setup with have all four drives as master on their own cable. You have enough connectors. Adn that controller will burn cd's fine but corrupts HD's at times. Just moving them and making sure the bios boot order is correct after cleaning them may forever kill your problem even without the bios/driver upgrade. You just need to move the hard disks off and if you can get a couple more cables and lets put them on their own cables. They really like that. (grin)
But lets for sure get the HD's off that controller asap. It works fine for some OS's but with win2k/win xp they came out with some very flawed bios/driver combos's that eat filesystems.
This isnt hard and I'm glad to help.
If you don't have another PC to post on then PM or email me and I'll give you my phone number to call and I'll walk you through it on the phone if you want. We can make it work just by switching some cables but having two more and going through some extra steps is worth the effort.
tex