WIN XP Pro AGAIN???

BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
edited August 2005 in Science & Tech
Its possible a electrical storm 2 weeks ago may have "upset" a serial ATA drive. It is the only drive in this computer and running XP Pro. It also has a TON of digital pictures I despritly need. If I were to buy another drive and install XP on the new drive, can I set the old drive as a slave? I hear it spinning up when its turned on.

Comments

  • BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
    edited August 2005
    Would it be possible to have Win2K Pro on a IDE Drive as master, and have the serial drive as slave ( even if it has WinXP Pro on it) and recover the pics?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited August 2005
    There is a very good chance you'll be able to get the pics off the drive by setting it as a slave device and pulling the data off of it. However, what's actually happening now when you try and boot up? Does it start loading windows then crashes with an error message, is it just hanging at some point, are you not even getting bios info on the screen etc..etc..

    You may be able to just do a repair install on that drive and keep going? There is more of a chance that a power outage to a computer is just going to corrupt data then actually physically destroy the drive. This is especially true during an electrical storm if your computer gets turned on and off a few times from power failures.
  • BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
    edited August 2005
    for a close friend. About 3 weeks ago he called and said he had a problem. I'm a local truck driver and could stop by his home and see what was wrong. I listened to him and saw that when windows was booting up, it got to a point and started to reboot on its own, over and over. Trying to get into the cmos was time consuming. It took a long time to get into that. I called ASUS tech support and after a while they said it sounded like the bios was bad. I RMA's the mobo, recieved a replacement and installed it last night. TROUBLE is I still had the same problem. Thats why I'm now thinking the hard drive is corrupt. Very late last night I removed his drive and hooked up an old 3.1gig drive on a fat flat ribbon cable. I installed Win2K to see how it ran. Currently NOW just installing service paks th Win2K to give the computer a work over if slightly. I would like to mention on bootup the ASUS welacome screen with the head outline and it says AI stays on for about 20 seconds, the if its going to boot up, it goes into a balck screen with a flashing curser in the upper left screen. This stays on for around 15-20 seconds also then boots into Windows.
    With a 3ghz Intell Cpu, 1 stick of 512mb of DDR400 . it should scream on bootup :help:
  • HawkHawk Fla Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    Try this program....Unstoppable Copier .
    You have multiple options of getting files off the drive or actually trying to rebuild and repair it so you can get it to boot up.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited August 2005
    From the sounds of it you should be able to do a repair windows install and get it going again. Pull out the hard drive and see if the bios boot screen still does this? Or was that all before you RMA'd the board?
  • BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
    edited August 2005
    I've been running a IDE drive for most of the day. I had the serial drive hooked up for the last 3 hours trying to get it "seeable". Thought I'd try serial only and disconnected the IDE. MAster Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T. Command failed............DAMN Western Dig drives. This makes the second WD drive that has failed on me in the last 6 years, none other has! I assume now its shot? :confused:
  • Jolyon33Jolyon33 Kalamazoo, MI
    edited August 2005
    Have you tried plugging it into another computer? Try it with a different cable perhaps?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited August 2005
    BruceY wrote:
    I've been running a IDE drive for most of the day. I had the serial drive hooked up for the last 3 hours trying to get it "seeable". Thought I'd try serial only and disconnected the IDE. MAster Hard Disk S.M.A.R.T. Command failed............DAMN Western Dig drives. This makes the second WD drive that has failed on me in the last 6 years, none other has! I assume now its shot? :confused:

    Could be shot. But turn of SMART in the bios and see if it works.
  • BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
    edited August 2005
    S.M.A.R.T. feature of the drives properties. This just elimitated the smart message. This is ONLY computer with a SERIAL HD interface. I found out today the drive is SHOT, now making a clicking sound. ONLY 1 year old!! :yell1: WD. Considering getting standard ATA100 ribbon interface on next drive. Looking at a Maxtor with 1 year warrenty and a Seagate with 5.
  • Jolyon33Jolyon33 Kalamazoo, MI
    edited August 2005
    Clicking sound not good. Still under warranty perhaps? I like Maxtors myself, but 5 year warranty on a Seagate is tempting.
  • BruceYBruceY S. Jersey
    edited August 2005
    I bought the drive from TCWO in FLa. It was supposed to have a 3 year warrenty. When I recieved it, I went on Western Digitals web site warrenty check. I typed the serial number in and got an "Out of Origin" message. Turns out NO warrenty from WD. At the time I thought, this is brand new, it should last a long time. I only had 1 other drive fail on me in 10 years. It too was a WD!! Anxcious to get it together for my friend, I went ahead and installed it. That was 13 months ago. Now that I have a problem and WD isnt going to stand behind their product, I called TCWO. They it seems went out of bussiness recently with no further info avail. so I'm but pucked. It's realy hard for me, you see my "close friend" , who I picked up the pc from 3 weeks ago, went into the hospital 7-29 for an opperation. He came thru that OK and something went wrong in ther ICU 24-36 hours later and he passed away. So I'm working on this now for his wife to use, when shes ready............ by the way, I purchased the Seagate.......F WD :yell1:
Sign In or Register to comment.