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| Bob Rawlins 2003-06-11, 10:23 am |
| My bios has stopped recognizing my Western Digital 40 GB HDD (DMA 5 750 rpm).
Nothing has changed. Any other HDD is recognized, so controller, power, and
cabling must be good. Of course, I can't run a virus scan because my system
doesn't see the HDD. I ran a diagnostic program furnished by WD and both the
quick and thorough test reveal no errors at all. One of the options is a
low-level format (they don't call it that). The data has been backed up.
Should I do it? Will this solve my problem? What IS the problem?
Bob
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| Your drive might be dead physically.plus how do you plan to low level format
it if it's invisable in BIOS in a 1st place?
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| Pikoro 2003-07-21, 10:24 pm |
| That is precisely the weird thing.
He says that the diagnostic program sees the drive, so he could eventually
launch the low-level formatting utility from a floppy.
"Alon" <abrodski@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:zh7Ra.103490$Io.8901284@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Your drive might be dead physically.plus how do you plan to low level
format
> it if it's invisable in BIOS in a 1st place?
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