My Hard Disk Disappeared Overnight!

My Hard Disk Disappeared Overnight! This has got me tearing my hair out now.......

#16 DaChew

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Posted 10 February 2008 - 08:11 AM

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/mainbo...8ks2-i945p.html

I was assuming this was your motherboard?

Somewhere here we have a failure to communicate, you might want to have a professional look at this

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Posted 10 February 2008 - 09:55 AM

WAG: Did you change out the PS (temporarily) since that seems to be a possibility (2 different motherboards)?

Run a diagnostic on the drive itself?

If you mentioned these things already, pardon my ignorance :thumbsup:

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Posted 10 February 2008 - 01:37 PM

Chewy
That article is correct and the title motherboard is indeed the model I have but further down the page there is a paragraph which talks about an ' "elder sister" 945P7AA-8EKRS2, based on the same PCB, but featuring maximum functionality' and that does have RAID on board. This may be where the confusion was.

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I haven't swapped out the power supply just checked it was supplying the correct voltages. I can't run a diagnostic on that drive because I can't boot it in my system, I am using my laptop to connect to the internet and the only machine I can fit the drive to as a slave is at work. I don't know of any way round that.

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Posted 10 February 2008 - 04:49 PM

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I don't even have a SCSI card in there.

but you have a scuzzi chip, the ITE which runs the 2 bottom ide connections

your drive's boot sector and those scuzzi drivers may be damaged

scuzzi just means extra ide controller in this instance(and it's raid) the other one would probably have been the sata on the intel southbridge

now look at what mode the ite is set for? it should be set for ide

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