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New hard drive troubles

Postby nightfire » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:14 am

well hello all again!

I am back with more of my mysterious troubles, and of course this is the best place to come.

So, today, i got a 200 GB seagate sata internal hd from a friend, he said that it was messed up and wouldn't work.

So, thinking ill try it for myself, i put it in my system and take out my secondary 40GB sata. So i boot up, my bios recognizes it, all great. Then i see the win xp splash, it loads normal, then the screen goes black as if to load the logon menu. It just sits at black, no cursor, nothing.

I have no idea why it won't even boot, is there a bootable program i can run that can test for bad blocks? like on a mac?

thanks so much for help or just for reading
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Postby Grav!ty » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:26 am

Just a thought. SATA is hot plugable, so I think unplug it (just one end of the cable - the one that plugs into the HDD is probably easiest), and then once you've booted into Windows, plug it in and see if Windows finds it.
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Postby nightfire » Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:20 am

wow, i had no idea that sata were hot pluggable....

Well, i ran it as the only hd and it failed with dban, so i destroyed it, too bad

But btw, does anyone have a program that is free, bootable from a cd, and just scans the sectors on a hard drive?Something simple is best, i hate complicated features

Well thanks for the info ^*^
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Postby ar1stotle » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:11 am

Well, you can use the recovery console on an XP disk. Otherwise, there's a program I used called Spinrite that will scan your drive and try to recover lost information.
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