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    Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
    « Reply #30 on: November 24, 2009, 10:14:33 PM »
    1.  Hard Drive.
         a.  How does it interface to motherboard; PATA (IDE/EIDE interface) or SATA?
         b.  Which drive do you have; make and model name/number?
         c.  What is the total capacity of the drive; e.g. 80 GB?

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      Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
      « Reply #31 on: November 25, 2009, 09:17:56 AM »
      @theripster it was Test Drive or something i dont think it would've fixed the problem anyways it was gonna take too long since my hard drive is 400 gb so i stopped the process.

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      a. its a SATA drive
      b. Western Digital WD4000AAJS
      c. 400 GB
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      Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
      « Reply #32 on: November 25, 2009, 09:24:39 AM »
      Sorry regulator...

      But if you don't have the patience to let a drive diagnostics app finish and do   
       it
      's job...and you  want to keep it Top Secret we can't help those that won't help themselves.

      You've been given good advice and not followed it.
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        Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
        « Reply #33 on: November 25, 2009, 09:27:21 AM »
        I have tried everything that everyone's said its just not working even xp install cds that have sata drivers slipstreamed.
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        Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
        « Reply #34 on: November 25, 2009, 09:29:29 AM »
        Use the drive manuf. FREE utilities to partition/prepare the drive for use in a PC and move on....
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          Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
          « Reply #35 on: November 25, 2009, 09:55:40 AM »
          i've tried those utilities before patio and they all come up that the disk cant be found or inaccessible either way that dont work.
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          Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
          « Reply #36 on: November 25, 2009, 09:57:57 AM »
          Bad SATA connector on the MBoard...
          Bad Data cable on the drive...
          Dead drive...

          Move the drive to another machine to confirm this.
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            Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
            « Reply #37 on: November 25, 2009, 10:18:38 AM »
            well tried it on my dads computer with his cables and nothing worked so i think its a dead drive.  his computer is a couple months old so his cables are somewhat better than mine, and i tend to leave my computer on at night (which i know can be bad for a computer) to download stuff.
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            Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
            « Reply #38 on: November 25, 2009, 10:20:31 AM »
            Leaving a machine on does not hurt it...
            Find the manuf. webpage and see what the Warranty is on the drive...you may be in Luck.
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              Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
              « Reply #39 on: November 25, 2009, 10:30:25 AM »
              good news i can get a replacement from WD.
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                Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
                « Reply #40 on: November 29, 2009, 07:54:22 AM »
                ugh this is painful using this slow laptop...I miss using my fast computer...its gonna be at least 2 to 3 weeks before my new hard drive arrives.
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                Re: Inaccessible or undetected hard drive
                « Reply #41 on: November 29, 2009, 08:24:12 AM »
                My last one only took 3-4 days....
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