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Old 02-03-04, 07:29 AM Thread Starter   #1
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Is my drive dead?


The computer ran 24/7 and I come home to a rebooted "NO SYSTEM DISK FOUND" message.

I turn the power off, remove all disks and reboot. It goes into windows so I go eat dinner. When I come back, again, "NO SYSTEM DISK FOUND".

So I power off again and after a couple tries with the same message, I get into windows. After about 20 mins I get a quick blue screen and then a reboot. "NO SYSTEM DISK FOUND" and now I cant boot at all.

My OC was fine/very mild. My heat was fine.

I tried removing the SATA connection and using just IDE and get the same message. I tried reloading windows and get the no disk message on the windows install.

Is this some virus possibly or is my disk just garbage? I had NAV updated and running.

Is there any way to check the disk?
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Old 02-03-04, 11:01 AM   #2
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Get the manufactures drive diagnostic utility and run the tests. The are available for free from the manufactures website.
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Old 02-03-04, 02:29 PM   #3
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Try removeing the harddrive and putting it in a diffrent computer and see if that works. Also go into the BIOS and see if the Bios Detects it there

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Old 02-03-04, 03:29 PM   #4
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if you dont have any important data that you absolutely need, nuke the HD with killdisk.com
free. i recovered a hard drive that way, the normal windows installer format didnt work but this did.
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Old 02-03-04, 06:53 PM Thread Starter   #5
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I dont get it. It was (and maybe still is) dying all the time. It passes a quick test diagnostic and seems to be working now.

I replugged the connections and it mysteriously works now. I tried this about 10 times though, so Im not convinced yet. Ill run a full test when virus scan is done.

The only thing I can think is maybe this time I have a new power connection to the SATA converter?
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Old 02-03-04, 07:53 PM   #6
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Backup your data off of it right away. You don't want it to go dead on you with your important stuff. I'd run extended diagnostics in it also.

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