Re: hard drives dying
- From: "JB" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:22:40 -0000
Hi. Brick wall every step.
HD is Maxtor. Downloaded and put on floppy as instructed but when I reboot,
it says incorrect system disk, remove and press any key.
:(
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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> From: "JB" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> | Hello.
> | Can a virus render a hard drive 'useless'? So that you can't boot
> WindowsXp
> | or recover with any bootdisks?
> | And can it be totally undetected?
> |
> | My laptop suddenly switched itself off and after numerous attempts just
> | comes up with
> | "No hard drive detected"
> | A week later my son's tower PC (winK) was playing up, then one day would
> not
> | reboot, saying disc sector corrupt. We had to pay an arm and a leg to a
> tech
> | to recover all his work and get a new hard drive.
> | Now my beloved PC is gone weird. Everything to do with start-up, taskbar
> and
> | system is taking around 10 minutes. It's not hanging, it's like in slow
> | motion.
> | It takes 40 minutes to reboot.
> | I am paranoid that it's also going to go. BUT the laptop was very old,
> my
> | son's PC not as well taken care of, Both those machines were running
> McAfee
> | 9 but new subscription were 2 weeks overdue.
> | Whereas my machine is a year and a half old, it is treasured and has
> ALL
> | the right protection, McAfee security suite, SpyDoctor, MSAntispy,
> (which
> | have all come up with 0 when doing scans)
> | I can't believe that it can be coincidence.
> | But if I have all this protection, how can it be a virus!!?
> | Any advice please,
> | Jen
> |
>
> Go to the hard disk manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic
> software
> respective to your hard disk. After the test, you will know if the hard
> disk is bad or
> not..
>
> Quantum/Maxtor - PowerMax
> http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm
>
> Western Digital - Data LifeGuard Tools (DLGDiag)
> http://support.wdc.com/download/
>
> Hitachi/IBM - Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
> http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
>
> Seagate - SeaTools
> http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/
>
> Fujitsu - Diagnostic Tool
> http://www.fcpa.com/download/hard-drives/
>
> Samsung - Disk manager
> http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/shdiag.htm
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
.
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