HARD DRIVE RELATED FAULTS

HARD DRIVE RELATED FAULTS

          

                            The hard drive does not spin when i start my computer. Is the power lead connected properly? If yes, try to different connector. Do other device, such as the CD ROM work with the power connector? If yes, the hard drive itself might be faulty. 

                           The hard drive spin but the BIOS will not defect it. Has a proper 40pin IDE ribbon cable been used and is it connected the right way around the (red wire to pin 1)? If yes, try a different ribbon. Are the jumpers of the hard drive set correctly? Is there another device that has been set wrongly to the same setting? Remember : one primary master, on primary slave, one secondary master, and one secondary slaves.

                The hard drive has been detected by BIOS but I cannot boot from it. The system boots OK from a boot-up floppy. Check whether your hard drive is the highest in the IDE hierarchy or whether another IDE device is using  a higher setting. If everything is set up OK, boot from a floppy and try to access the hard drive, most likely you have not set an active partition, without which you cannot boot. If you cannot access the drive at all : have you partitioned, and formatted it yet?

The drive workers as a slave, but not as master, or vice versa. check the master/slave jumper on the back  of the drive for the correct setting. Have a look if BIOS is setup correctly. If everything seems OK, your drive might be faulty. 

                   

    The computer does not manage to format my hard drive. There is definitely something wrong with  the hard drive itself. If it's a new one, Bring it Back and ask for replacement. If it's an old one, try the low level format utility in the BIOS. If that does not work, your hard drive is probably down for good. Sometimes i cannot boot from the hard drive or the BIOS cannot detect it. IF your BIOS is not set to auto detect the hard drive or if you cannot detect the drive from within the BIOS, It is likely or drive failure. If it is detectable, than the driver is probably fine. Have you Prepared the Drive? a hard drive mostly formatted and partition before it can be use. If you get a specific error message, base your troubleshooting on the information. I cannot partition over 2 GB insize. If you are running DOS or The First edition of the Windows 95, You are Using the FAT 16 file system. FAT 16 one only access upto 16 GB. Upgrade later version of windows.