Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (
More info?)
Rich,
Many thanks indeed for all your help. My friend is coming round to try out
what you suggest.
All best wishes,
Mary.
"Rich Barry" wrote:
> Mary, you can swap the white power connectors to drive and cdrom drive.
> They are the same. You can also swap the
> ribbon cable temporarily. If after doing this and the hard drive still
> does not show up in the Bios chances are the drive is
> kaput. Try the drive as Primary Master temporarily to see if the Bios
> recognizes it. Hard Drives can act weird. Mine just failed but I was able to
> swap white power connectors and that seemed to keep it going for awhile
> until it got the click of death.
>
> "MaryG" <MaryG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C21D794F-0557-4D7F-9C45-8DF0BFDE776A@microsoft.com...
> > Rich and Dave,
> >
> > Thanks to both of you. When the Boot has not picked up the drive the BIOS
> > states: 'Primary Slave: None'.
> >
> > I'll have to ask a friend round to check the cable. Is there anything else
> > to ask him to check?
> >
> > How do you know if a drive's 'going bad'?
> >
> > "Rich Barry" wrote:
> >
> >> Mary, if the drive has been working it could be going bad and check
> >> the White four wire Power Connector and Ribbon Cable. Make sure that they
> >> are fully seated and secure.
> >> "da_test" <davexnet02NO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:bk71415ik1i3qle4m0g7ortn73fvjilrj5@4ax.com...
> >> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:01:08 -0800, "MaryG"
> >> > <MaryG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>Thanks, Rich.
> >> >>
> >> >>No, I meant where you can specify that the computer seeks for the Boot
> >> >>file
> >> >>in 3 places, e.g. hard disc, CD, and floppy disc. I specified hard disc
> >> >>for
> >> >>each one. I imagined it would give 3 chances instead of 1 !
> >> >>
> >> >>But could the problem be even before booting up?
> >> >>
> >> > It could be. While the system is posting there is usually
> >> > a summary of the IDE devices found, right before XP
> >> > starts.
> >> > Try using the pause key to see if you can freeze
> >> > the display to give you time to read it.
> >> >
> >> > If that's not possible, enter the BIOS and look for
> >> > it in there.
> >> >
> >> > Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>