Troubleshooting Hard Disk Drives - Booting or Operation Problems
There is an apparent failure of the hard disk; the hard
disk is not bootable nor accessible at all
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I had a hard disk that was functioning properly in one PC,
but when I moved it to another PC or upgraded the motherboard, it stopped working, or the
data on it was not accessible
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The hard disk will not boot, but is accessible after
booting from a floppy disk
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The hard disk won't autodetect in the BIOS setup
program
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The hard disk won't autodetect at boot time
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There appears to be a failure or problem with a hard
disk controller
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The system hangs up while trying to boot the hard disk
when it is first booted after turning it on, but will boot after a warm reset
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When I boot up Windows 95, it says it is using compatibility
mode for my hard disk
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I have a SCSI hard disk and IDE/ATA hard disk in the same
system, and I want to boot the SCSI one but the IDE one always boots first
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My hard disk has been diagnosed as legitimately being
dead (it cannot be accessed at all). Is there anything I can do to recover the data on it?
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