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HELP! please anyone help me there's something wrong with my HD
crashwg:
For some reason, my hard drive doesn't want to boot up! Here's what I did. I got a new HD, Western Digital 120 gig 7200 rpm model:WD1200JBRTL.
In the literature that came with it it says to look at the existing HD to see if the motherboard supports CS(cable select), so I check that and the HD in there, Samsung, was set to CS so I left the new HD on CS which was the way it came. I started up the computer with the supplied CDrom and went through the steps and then it said something to the effect of "your HD is now set up, please restart" so I do. And when it restarts I get a screen that says:
"We apologize fo the inconvenience, but windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this....more stuff here, doesn't seem important enough to type....
Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Prompt
Last Known Good Configuration (blah blah blah)
Start Windows Normally"
No matter which option I choose it starts loading for about 10 seconds and then it stops.
I have since disconnected the new HD and I get the same result when I try to start up. I also changed the jumpers on both drives to MA for the Samsung and SL for the WD, still nothing.
Someone please help me! My GF is going to kill me. I have like 3 gigs of pictures of my daughter on that HD.
Witchboard:
It's okay. You can always recover the data from your HD by installing a parallel copy of your OS. Have you hit WD's website to see what they say about the error?
crashwg:
I went to WD site but I don't have a error code or anything like that so I have no idea what to search for. I'm currently on the phone with eMachines tech support, or should I say I'm on hold...
crashwg:
Uh... yea. The guy told me that I need to contact WD because of somthing about how when you hook up a second HD the jumppers... I have no idea he was mumbling. I thing he just didn't have an answer and was passin the buck.
crashwg:
Grrrr... "Session check failure. Please try again."
The board won't let me modify my post.
I guess I'm just waiting till mornin' when WD's tech support is available :(
Since when were computers so difficult to upgrade? A couple of years ago, it was easy as pie. Heck, I put together my first computer :-\
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