Re: FN-FORUM invisible HD

date posted 13th January 2003 20:49

Cheers guys, I've tried every combination of the jumper settings.
Just rebooted to check in BIOS, Nothing.
There's absolutely no sign of it anywhere on the system.
RIP me thinks
ok, if its called for, anybody know of a cheap data recovery
service. sigh . . .

After this fiasco I'm dropping hardware support and sticking to
websites. Bloody thing worked fine this morning.

Darren


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rus Foster" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM invisible HD


> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> > yet more hardware agro !
> >
> > I have a clients hard drive here that just stopped being
> > picked up by his motherboard so I brought it home to
> > plug into my machine thinking it was their new system
> > that was at fault, but no. Its plugged in now as primary
> > drive and windows doesn't pick it up at all. Not even
> > some kind of error.
> >
> > Anybody any ideas.
> >
>
> Most BIOS have Auto-detect HDD. Give that try. If that doesn't work it
> might be the master/slave settings. If that still doesn't work I would say
> dead controller on the HDD. Time for those backups
>
> Rus
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