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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: pretty1 on September 26, 2011, 08:44:27 AM

Title: not working hardrive
Post by: pretty1 on September 26, 2011, 08:44:27 AM

how can you detect if the hardrive is not working?

Title: Re: not working hardrive
Post by: Transfusion on September 26, 2011, 08:46:37 AM

You could go to http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Testdisk to boot a HDD diagnostic test. If it is not detected in the BIOS you could slave it to another computer to check.

Title: Re: not working hardrive
Post by: Allan on September 26, 2011, 09:21:00 AM

Go to the website of the hd manufacturer, download their diagnostic utility, burn it to cd, boot to it and run it.