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Is this a hard drive failure (PC desktop)?
My old computer was freezing up, then it was spontaneously going into CMOS screen every 2 hours or so. After trying to replace various parts like memory and battery on the mother board I pulled out the hard drive and plugged it into a known working machine. Now it goes into this screen where it shows a table of all the details like what kind of memory it has, what kind of processor, what kind of hard drive, ports and so on.
At the very end of the screen, it says: "Searching for boot record from IDE-0..OK" and it doesn't proceed any further.
How can I convince it to go to Windows screen?
It's supposed to have Windows XP on it.
It's a Maxtor N256 30 GB hard drive, probably 2004
I put Maxtor as the only hard drive... If I'm to put it as slave, how do I jumper the original as master? Where do the jumpers go?
Thanks though, it was a useful comment.
3 Answers
- DSM HandymanLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Did you put this Maxtor 30GB drive into the computer as the only drive or along with the original drive. The difference is critical.
If both are there, make sure the original is jumpered as master and on the furthest connecter on the ribbon. That is usually the problem under these conditions.
If not, tell us more details and you will get a better answer.
P.S. Look on Maxtor's web site for info on the jumpers. It is different on each brand and can vary from model to model. They should have a picture to make it easy to understand. There may be writing on the drive telling you, but it is sometimes too hard to read.
Source(s): Lots of years doing computer support. - 1 decade ago
What you need to do is format the drive completely and do a fresh windows install. If it does n' t work then it is probably a hard disk failure.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Unfortunately you can't just take a hard disk with Windows from one computer and put it into another computer. Windows is limited both technologically and by software licence. You can use the hard disk, but you'll need to reinstall Windows.
