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
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
The hard disk will not boot, but is accessible after
booting from a floppy disk
The hard disk won't autodetect in the BIOS setup
program
The hard disk won't autodetect at boot time
There appears to be a failure or problem with a hard
disk controller
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
When I boot up Windows 95, it says it is using compatibility
mode for my hard disk
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
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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