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Mobo battery died+ HDD Failure
Jammin0:
Sometimes a HD won't boot because it is hooked up wrong. If it is jumpered as a slave drive and the CD was a master, taking out the Cd would cause weird issues. If you can't figure out how you had it setup before then I would second taking everything off, double check to make sure your drive is in Master mode and plug only it in. Could also be a video card problem, you say you're booting to DOS? When the screen goes blank do you still get a HD activity light?
RayB:
turns out I'm getting HDD BOOT FAILURE
I connect it to my regular desktop and ran a disk check on it. It corrected a bunch of bad sectors which it put in a folder called "FOUND". That contains a bunch of 16kb .CHK files. What do I do now?
Malenko:
new HD, hook up the old one as a slave and hope you can copy everything over
equlizer:
Try and do a FIXMBR if you can then reboot computer.
Hard drives are soo cheap these days anyways :afro:
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: equlizer on November 19, 2011, 03:50:09 am ---Try and do a FIXMBR if you can then reboot computer.
Hard drives are soo cheap these days anyways :afro:
--- End quote ---
Not as cheap as last month.
I had the same problem with my BIOS, and one particular old hard drive.
We are talking non auto configuration, then you will have to key the drive details into CMOS directly.
Just look on the drive and you will see it listed. Check the jumpers on the drive and make sure it tallys with the CMOS settings.
Unless it is SCSI....
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