Re: hard drives dying
- From: "JB" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 20:16:31 -0000
Thanks guys for staying with me. I had another go but this time I shut down
totally and rebooted instead of just 'restart' and it worked and doing it's
thing. I'll keep you posted
Jen
"Mike Hall (MS-MVP)" <mikehalll@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OEhPzq39FHA.1248@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> JB
>
> Does it boot off a regular Win 98 boot diskette even?.. if it does, you
> are not using the correct procedure to make a MemTest 86 diskette..
>
> --
> Mike Hall
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "JB" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:O9GwEX39FHA.160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>> news:eslGaw09FHA.3928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> 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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