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Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:27 am Post subject:
SATA Hard drive is dead |
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I purchased a Dell Dimension 4600 with a 160gb SATA Western Digital
drive (Windows XP Pro SP2) two years ago. The PC suddenly locked up, I
rebooted and got the dreaded "Disk Read Error Press Cntrl-Alt Del to
reboot". The hard drive frequently makes a high pitched whinning
noise. When i touch the drive it is vibrating..so I think it is
spinning.
I checked all the cables reseated all of the DIMMs and cards...no luck.
I verified the BIOS settings were OK and that I had the latest version
installed..no luck
I put the drive in another PC as a slave..no luck.
I purchased SpinRite 6.0..It said the partition is on the size it
should be and can not continue.
I purchased a new Maxtor 200gb SATA drive, installed XP..no issues.
When I add the old drive to the secondary SATA the PC takes a long time
to boot. The old drive does not show up in XP. However, it is
detected in the BIOS.
Any other suggestions on what i should do other than chuck it out the
window? |
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