drive failure

[nabeels786]

would random reboots, OS occasionaly not being found = drive failure?

its a friends 6 year old comp

[jim mcnamara]

Could be more like a hard drive or the controller failure. Try Reseating the IDE card (or whatever it is).

[JungleMan]

Sounds like the IDE controller to me...

[nabeels786]

i dont think she knows how to..just pull out the ide cable and switch them around or something?

[Guv]

The fans and drive moters cause just enough vibration to loosen cards,, data cable connections, and/or power connections.

Open the case and make sure there are no slightly loose connections.

[Jethro]

You ain't getting any "Can't find C drive" or "Can't find boot sector" error messages are you....

Just thinking the battery thing, if reseating the card don't work...

[Behemoth]

run scandisk. That should clear up whether or not you have a dodgy HDD

[nabeels786]

Originally posted by Jethro
You ain't getting any "Can't find C drive" or "Can't find boot sector" error messages are you....

Just thinking the battery thing, if reseating the card don't work...

she got one last week, and one over chrismas break. its a compac presario, about 2 years old.

i took the IDE cables out and switched them around, maybe it was a cable problem, seems alright as of now

running scandisk...theres an idea

[Gandalf_Grey_]

i had a problem like that, after working on it for like an hour i said screw it and watched TV for 15 minutes, i cam back and tryed it and it worked fine, although it detected my hard drive as an auxillary boot device, and today i have to manually reset my bios (short 2 terminals on the motherboard) and it is now detecting it as a network drive, go figure but it works fine, i can't figure out why though