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Sata hard drive will not boot

#1 Canis dirus

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Posted 03 April 2009 - 05:33 PM

Hello, I'm pretty sure I'm posting in the right area, i searched but couldn't find someone who already had my exact problem. I started my computer and it took a minute while saying detecting IDE drives. after a while it said "IDE channel 2 master: " that blank spots is where it usually shows my hard drives number. After that it said "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter".

The hard drive is a western digital 500gb sata drive model number WD5000AAJS. I tried removing my my DVD-ROM but the same thing happened then i tried to to reinstall windows but i got "stop: 0x0000007f
I've also tried swithing the port it's plugged into. i don't have an extra cable to see if that's it. My motherboard is pcchips ag13+

I don't know what information to put up if you want to know more just ask. Since it doesn't say none while detecting IDE drives i think it knows somethings there it just can't read from it.

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Posted 04 April 2009 - 01:22 AM

does your bios recognize it? you may have to go into the bios and enable IDE emulation (I think thats the name of the option to set)

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#3 Canis dirus

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Posted 04 April 2009 - 02:08 PM

I'll go and look for that now but it was working the day before so why would it stop now. the bios aren't resetting themselves so the battery is still good.

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Posted 04 April 2009 - 02:56 PM

Swap cables (SATA and power) to the drive, plug the cable into another SATA port on the mobo. Chances are the drive is dead.

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Posted 04 April 2009 - 04:42 PM

Im going to agree with dpunisher, if it was working and is no longer and you changed nothing, then you have a bad drive. You should be able to find a hard disk check utility from the hard drives manufacturers website.

#6 Canis dirus

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Posted 04 April 2009 - 08:52 PM

i tried it once more today before i went out and got a new hard. and noticed its not detecting my DVD-Rom anymore. Could there be something else going wrong? I would hate to get a new hard drive and have it not work ethier

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Posted 04 April 2009 - 08:59 PM

could in theory be the motherboard, but I bet if its a setting in your bios. is your DVDrw drive sata to?

#8 Canis dirus

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Posted 05 April 2009 - 03:29 PM

No the dvd is on a IDE cable and is detected in my other computer with the same ide cable so both dvd and cable work. This computer is old and i cannot test the sata drive in it.

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Posted 05 April 2009 - 08:29 PM

Have you tried replacing the CMOS battery?

I would...before deciding any hardware has failed.

CMOS Battery Replacement - http://www.liverepair.com/encyclopedia/art...cmosreplace.asp

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