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russ13051981

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    Hard drive problem - power cut caused?
    « on: December 27, 2009, 08:15:14 AM »
    Hello,

    This is my first thread as im new to this site and have come accross the first problem that i have not been able to resolve myself.

    My system is a Hp, with AMD Phenom 8550 triple core proccesor 2.20ghz, 4gb memory, windows 7 ultimate 64 bit, with 2 x 500 g hard drives.

    The problem was the power went off for a while whilst the computer was on, and i started it up once power back, only to get a message, DISK BOOT FAILURE ENTER SYSTEM DISK, having no discs or whatever there was nothing i could do, tried entering recovery when booting up initially but nothing

    As i am using windows 7, i put in the disk to reinstall, and it could only find my other hard drive that i keep music and films on etc, so i thought id do that, and installed it on there, after installation of w7, it booted up with 27 installed on the other drive, gone into my computer and the other one is no were to be seen.

    just to add i have gone into bios to see if it was there but not, i have stipped side of the comp out and took the working drive out and just left old one in, and turned comp on, i could hear it working inside butas i say only getting to the disk boot failure black screen.

    i trued swapping the leads that were in working drive to old one.

    hope this explains it better i hope u can help me






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    Re: Hard drive problem - power cut caused?
    « Reply #1 on: December 27, 2009, 09:36:28 AM »
    Remove all HDD's except the original 7 boot drive...
    Boot to the Win7 CD and do a repair install.
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      Re: Hard drive problem - power cut caused?
      « Reply #2 on: December 27, 2009, 09:48:03 AM »
      i have tried that once selected repair, it comes up with screen which shows no drives to do it on, i try scan , but to no avail

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      Re: Hard drive problem - power cut caused?
      « Reply #3 on: December 27, 2009, 09:56:19 AM »
      Try replacing the data cable to the offending drive...use a brand new one.
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        Re: Hard drive problem - power cut caused?
        « Reply #4 on: December 27, 2009, 10:06:25 AM »
        but the other working drive, i used there cables and nothing

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        Re: Hard drive problem - power cut caused?
        « Reply #5 on: December 27, 2009, 10:19:23 AM »
        Try it...
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