Dude! Big Problems: 2nd H.d. Is Missing -

[cwctv]

My my is this still going on change the drive around big in place of the small etc put cd on primary (or leave off for now)with the large drive don't connect the small one,get a bootdisk ready reason being is that the new drive might not have the "active" set on it that is why its saying put bootdisk in plus if the fdisk settings don't match the drives cos it came out of another machine it won't see it on boot.

Change the settings in the bios to boot to floppy first ide second, boot the machine with the bootdisk in go to fdisk and press 4 tell all what you see .

[Roosh]

Ok, for a conclusion:

I went to a local specialist and determined that the drive is indeed blown out , and there's no real way to determine what did it .


A direct quote:
"The controller board on the hard drive is toast. Although the BIOS sees the hard drive, it reports it as "failed". Windows doesn't see it (no biggy) but when the data recovery software failed to see the drive, it was definite that the controller board was FUBAR."

So there you go. The visit wasn't a total bust as I upped my Ram from 192mb (supporting XP Pro for the past 3 months&#33 to 384mb at a very affordable price & given some useful support apps/tips ("BigFix", "RamBooster", "Cacheman", etc.) I was also told about 40 gig "Notebook" external h.d.'s (portable & as small as your hand). I'll most likely go for an external 120 gig USB hd @ Costco tomorrow (approx $100) - (if anyone wants to recommend some quality sites/stores to try for good deals on new h.d.'s, by all means...).

Thanks to all for going to the trouble of responding & offering suggestions.


- Roosh