New hard drive troubles
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New hard drive troubles
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
(Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Mobo)(AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+)(3.5 GB high speed ram?)(EVGA Geforce 8800GTS)(500 GB and 1 TB Sata Drives)super high speed, 3COM 56k Modem!!
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
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
(Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Mobo)(AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+)(3.5 GB high speed ram?)(EVGA Geforce 8800GTS)(500 GB and 1 TB Sata Drives)super high speed, 3COM 56k Modem!!
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